Witch Hats

Witch Hats: Deliverance

Music / July 17, 2016 / 3 minutes of reading

The cover of Witch Hats’ third album Deliverance is an 1861 sketch by Ludwig Becker, the German artist and explorer who died as a member of Burke and Wills’ ill-fated expedition from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Titled “Border Of Mud Desert” and drawn in the last weeks of the artist’s life, it’s a […]

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Death to shuffle!

Music / November 17, 2011 / 4 minutes of reading

It’s funny how, 10 years since the advent of the iPod was supposed to mark the death of the album as a conceptual art form, great albums keep magically appearing. They appear about as regularly as articles proclaiming (yet again) the death of the album. Cue Diana Elliott in yesterday’s Age. Given this isn’t exactly the first

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