I'm Still In the Night - EP

iTunes Review

Now at the forefront of “witch house” (a genre that started with an inside joke, featuring house music intertwined with industrial textures and hints of '80s goth ambience), Salem follows its justifiably hyped 2010 debut album, King Night, with this EP. As the title jokingly hints, I'm Still in the Night plays like outtakes from King Night. The warbling title track blends lo-fi synths with slowed samples of chanting before a plethora of skittering beats and bassy drones fall like a flash flood over spooky synth ambience. A cover of Alice DeeJay’s “Better Off Alone” moves much slower, with a big, boomy kickdrum holding down distorted keyboards and a bass so blown-out you might think your speakers are damaged. Under this, Salem adds peripheral singing that’s been pitched down so slowly that the vocals are unintelligible. The rapping on “Krawl” also crawls at a snail’s pace, as Jack Donoghue’s doubled vocals sound blurred under an oscillating hi-hat. “Baby Rata” closes with wall-to-wall synthesizers and what sounds like a female singer positioned behind the whirring blades of an electric fan.