Wicca Phase Springs Eternal

Wicca Phase Springs Eternal has certainly earned the final word of his eye-catching moniker. The Pennsylvania-based singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist seems to draw from a bottomless musical well, releasing new songs at a fittingly supernatural clip and never resting on his creative laurels. Adam McIlwee has returned with Midnight at the Castle Moorlands, the latest chapter in the ongoing WPSE story. 

Last year McIlwee released Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, a record that brought a cosmic scope to his ever-evolving sound, and had barely seen the light of day before he was already back on a writing streak. “For this new EP I ended up recording 15 songs over a couple weeks, a bunch of them were songs that were either leftover from the self-titled or even songs that I’d written and forgotten about or lost,” laughs McIlwee. “I don't even really understand how that happened but they just never made it into the studio. I never have a shortage of songs ever, I’m always writing.” His ability to write so many songs that they could actually be misplaced is a testament to McIlwee prolific nature, and also to the workmanlike approach he takes to creating truly otherworldly music. “More than a performer or an entertainer, I just consider myself a songwriter,” he says. “But you have to show up–you have to pick up the guitar or go to the computer and really try to put the time in. And the more you do that, the more you finish songs, and the more prolific you can be.”