Wicca Phase Springs Eternal

Admission 7 pm

McIlwee's latest full-length: Wicca Phase Springs Eternal offers the musician's most finely honed and welcoming songs to date, but it's more than just a self-titled album-it's a portal, an entryway into an entire world.

As 2019 merged into 2020, the former Tigers Jaw member and Gothboiclique founder was looking to step away from the hyper-concentrated melancholic trap of 2019's Suffer On, and set out to breathe fresh life into the WPSE project by creating a broader sonic landscape. "Suffer On and a lot of the music I was making around that time was just so emotionally heavy," McIlwee explains. "It felt like I was putting a lot on the listener and on myself. So I started thinking about early Wicca Phase and the world building I was doing-I was just throwing things at the wall then, but now I have ten more years of songwriting experience. I realized I wanted to just keep developing a depth to Wicca Phase, I didn't want to just scratch the surface."