New music review with singles from Red Ivory and Witch Post

Julia Mason aka The Decibel Decoder
6 days ago
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Our weekly fix of the best new music as Julia Mason (aka The Decibel Decoder) brings us her new music review with singles from Red Ivory 12th of October and Witch Post Changeling

Artist: Red Ivory

Track: 12th of October

South London four-piece Red Ivory release new single 12th October — Credit Addy Nzerem

South London four-piece Red Ivory share a second single from their forthcoming EP, Please Leave, I Need To Wake Up Now, to be self-released on 28 November. Following recent single Crashing Down they have released the EP's pensive opening track 12th of October.

The first song the band ever wrote, it sets the tone and feels like a statement of intent – bold, cathartic and unflinchingly honest. Having recorded the EP at Strongroom Studios with producer Adele Phillips after winning Festival Republic's ReBalance award, the new, fuller reimagined arrangement demonstrates how far they’ve come .

They comment: "We are so happy with how we managed to re-imagine it at Strongroom Studios, so that it is cohesive with our newer, bolder sound whilst still embodying who we were when we first started out. Our relationship with the track and how it has changed closely mirrors the themes and types of change which we focus on throughout the EP."

Formed in autumn 2021, vocalist Eiliyah, bassist Berry, guitarist Frida, and drummer Ivy met in their secondary school music rooms and began writing together almost immediately. What started as four friends experimenting with riffs and lyrics has since evolved into a band with a sharply defined identity and a catalogue of songs that speak to their shared experiences of adolescence, change, and uncertainty. Every track is written collaboratively, each member shaping the sound so that it reflects their diverse influences – from the rawness of 90s grunge to the angular edges of post-punk and the melodic sensibility of indie rock.

Please Leave, I Need To Wake Up Now gathers together five songs written between 2021 and 2024, effectively chronicling the band’s formative years. The EP captures the turbulence of that period – from fear of rejection and claustrophobic anxiety to fleeting moments of hope and catharsis. Its title, at once commanding and fragile, mirrors this duality: the sense of pushing back against overwhelming forces while acknowledging vulnerability.

Red Ivory Live Dates

November

5 - Reading - Purple Turtle

13 - London - Mascara Bar, Stoke Newington

14 - London - The Greyhound, Peckham

December

3 - London - Sebright Arms, Hackney (Still Listening Magazine show)

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Artist: Witch Post

Track: Changeling

Witch Post announce their signing to Partisan Records with new single Changeling — Credit Parker Love Bowling

Witch Post announce their signing to Partisan Records, where they join Geese, Blondshell and PJ Harvey. To celebrate the news, Alaska Reid and Dylan Fraser enchant with their new single Changeling, the first since their breakout debut EP Beast released earlier this year.

The track leans into Witch Post’s widescreen: big power chords, crashing drums, and an explosive chorus that feels ripped from a dream of ‘90s arena rock. But true to form, Witch Post cast their own spell, twisting the familiar into something eerily seductive and emotionally raw, leaving a song that feels like a grunge-rock anthem touched by something spectral.

With Changeling, the band leave a note:

“We met a changeling that inspired this song. We didn’t realise it 'till a year later…

Once knew a changeling Julie was her name

Foxglove & roses painted tears on her face

I knew she was restless, I knew she had pain

Then she tried to consume me we were never the same”

Witch Post is a Gemini-like meeting of minds that happened entirely by chance (or fate, if you prefer). In another stroke of coincidence, they discovered they are from towns which share the same name - one in Scotland, the other in Montana. Alaska's music is drawn from the dark atmospherics of the American indie scene, and Dylan's is pop but if it were warped by a house of mirrors.