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Three Mile Ditch

2020 studio album by The Wytches

Three Mile Ditch is the third studio album by English rock band The Wytches. It was released on 13 November 2020 through Cable Code Records. Recording sessions took place at Tile House Studios in London during Autumn 2019.

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In the United Kingdom, the album peaked at number 6 on the Record Store Chart, number 38 on the Independent Albums Chart and number 8 on the Independent Album Breakers Chart.

Critical reception

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All Your Happy Life was met with generally favourable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 79 based on four reviews.[1]

Cameron Sinclair-Harris of Gigwise praised the album, giving it nearly perfect 9 out of 10 score.[5] Susan Hansen of The Line of Best Fit called the album "raw and absorbing", adding "it deserves our full attention".[6] Classic Rock reviewer labelled the work as "a spellbynding brew".[3] Ana Leorne of Beats Per Minute stated: "Three Mile Ditch is living proof that lightning does indeed strike the same place twice — and sometimes with a vengeance. Rumours of their death have been highly exaggerated, as The Wytches have never felt so alive".[2] In her mixed review for DIY, Lisa Wright wrote: "the signs for the band's third aren't too rosy, and yet their latest does go some way to showing the defter touch they first struck out with".[4]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Kristian Bell, except 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7 written with the Wytches

Personnel

  • Kristian Bell – vocals, lyrics, guitar, drums, mellotron, Rhodes
  • Dan Rumsey – bass, drums, guitar
  • Mark Breed – guitar, bass, drums, Hammond, mellotron
  • Luke Oldfield – piano, tambourine, farfisa, whistle, mellotron, warpspeed, recording, mixing
  • Noel Summerville – mastering
  • Samuel Gull – artwork, design

Charts

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References

  1. [1]
    "Critic Reviews for Three Mile Ditch - Metacritic". Metacritic. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  2. [2]
    Leorne, Ana (16 November 2020). "Album Review: The Wytches – Three Mile Ditch | Beats Per Minute". Beats Per Minute. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  3. [3]
    Classic Rock - December 2020. 2020. p. 87.
  4. [4]
    Wright, Lisa. "The Wytches - Three Mile Ditch". DIY. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  5. [5]
    Sinclair-Harris, Cameron (29 October 2020). "Album Review: The Wytches - Three Mile Ditch | Gigwise". Gigwise. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  6. [6]
    Hansen, Susan (29 September 2020). "The Wytches welcome return is rife with mesmeric dark riffs". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  7. [7]
    "Official Record Store Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  8. [8]
    "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  9. [9]
    "Official Independent Album Breakers Chart". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
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