Photo by Katrina Andrzejewski

Adam Andrzejewski has lived many creative lives through the spirited form that is his moniker, Wicca Phase Springs Eternal. Upon his departure as the frontman of the great Philly emotive post-hardcore rock outfit Tigers Jaw, his reinvention has never ceased to be boundless as a songwriter and producer, as he helped usher in the Soundcloud emo-rap era as a co-founder of the GothBoiClique. Since then, he’s added layers to his shadows through cold, gleaming electronic-pop, rattling haunted ruminations through barebone guitar strums, and giving indie rock a Gothic Americana makeover. Yet, his permanence within the underground rap scene has remained through and through his defining stylistic feature.

That beat changes with his forthcoming album, Mossy Oak Shadow. Described as a “mystical folk rock” exploration that hears him in the the studio with fellow purveyor of black clad materials, Ben Greenberg of Uniform, the dramatic shift toward rustic traditionalism rather than synthetic synesthesia on its early highlight, “Horseback”, isn’t all too surprising when you take into account that the likes of future collaborator Ethel Cain, past collaborator Zola Jesus, the kindred Chelsea Wolfe, and Sacred Bones spirits Marissa Nadler and Cult of Youth have all found their way through the countryside’s darkness where romance and a danger lurking in trees coexists, and are offered up to sunsets and moonlight. “In the midnight hour, fast and wild and true / I, the restless rider, ride back home to you,” Andrzejewski sings. Eternally, this is the kind of love that prevails over the death of night.

Wicca Phase Springs Eternal’s Mossy Oak Shadow will be released September 19th on Run for Cover Records.