Witchboard is the musical project of writer, producer, and director Glenn McQuaid. Known most notably for his debut film, 2008s I Sell The Dead, as well as his audio series Tales From Beyond The Pale(both with Larry Fessenden and Fessenden’s production company Glass Eye Pix.) McQuaid also directed a segment of the original anthology film V/H/S.
With Witchboard McQuaid makes menacing, chilling tomes to the nighttime and late night indiscretions. From haunted ambient to slinky techno to 80s synth pop, Witchboard brings to mind both the sultry and sexual; as well as the ominous and moody of 80s late night movie scores and the seedier side of the neon decade’s electro pop sounds.
A heady mix of electronic post-punk delicacies and the Gothic leather underground.
With his latest release under the Witchboard moniker, titled Incidental Goth Club Music For Television and Film, McQuaid takes Witchboard into the shaded, sweaty world of late night life. Working like library music for darkened dance clubs and seedy indiscretions, Incidental Goth Club Music For Television and Film works like a late night exorcism on a strobe-lit dance floor.
On single “Get Anxious” it seems the house lights have come up and its time for the ghouls to head back to their respective crypts. The song wavers in the air like a chill hitting your sweat-covered skin on the long walk home after a night of humid undulating. The song kicks into an almost Krautrock groove as the walk home goes from woozy and hallucinogenic to paranoid and claustrophobic.
This is seedy 70s New York all the way, bringing to mind everything from Joy Division, Bauhaus, and Suicide to the more contemporary sounds of Pentagram Home Video, Pye Corner Audio, and The Soft Moon. Painstakingly curated for the club hoppers, street kids, and things that go bump in the night.
Listen to “Get Anxious” below. ‘Incidental Goth Club Music For Television and Film’ will be released on 7/12 via the great Library of the Occult. Hit up LOTO’s Bandcamp page early next Friday and snag a delicious slab of “Neon Night” Pink vinyl.
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