We got to know Portuguese five-piece Lola Lola last year through their exotic Baby Please Don’t Go cover, but their self-penned songs are also great. Just in time for Halloween, Carla Capela (vocals), Tiago Gil (guitar), Miguel Lourenço (bass), Rui Teixeira (saxophone) and Hélder Coelho (drums) are back with a danceable 45 – their seventh 7-inch record – with two songs specially made for the upcoming party. Both A-side Little Witch (a story of a young witch who evolves into a powerful sorceress) and B-side The Monster of the Wildsee Forest (about a cursed black forest inhabited by a terrible creature made of gold) may be meant to be spooky and sinister, but they are mainly entertaining and cheerful. Rhythm & blues meets garage rock, how well that works.
Little Witch, produced by Nuno Riviera, is out digitally and on 7″ vinyl through Chaputa! Records.