“Pray For Me” by WITCHZ is a Heartfelt Plea for Aid in Transcending the Grips of One’s Personal Demons

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WITCHZ, photo courtesy the artist

“Pray For Me” by WITCHZ combines a bit of lush spaghetti Western guitar with trap production, reggae and highly emotional vocals. It evokes the imagery of someone looking back on the personal demons that have to some extent helped to define his life and its direction with a melancholic ambivalence. The structure and signal processing on the song has a cinematic quality, particularly when the rhythm slows down like a film that is warping out in front of you, like the chapters in one’s life hitting you as points at which you recognize in retrospect that you had a chance to take a different path but you feel like you took the turn that led further down negative road. And yet the song is a plea for help in climbing out of one’s own personal hell into a better place, to redemption and a chance to free oneself of those demons once and for all. Listen to “Pray For Me” on Spotify.

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