Until They Burn Me gather six dark tales around the fire on new EP 'COVEN'

Across their new EP 'COVEN', Until They Burn Me move through witchcraft, obsession, folklore, bad omens and uneasy atmosphere without forcing those ideas into a single narrative. Instead, each song approaches the supernatural from a different angle, creating a release connected by mood rather than plot.

Cody Carlyle and Travis Jordan have never seemed especially interested in staying inside one musical lane, and 'COVEN' gives them plenty of room to move between Americana, dark country, folk, blues, rock and more elusive territory. The songs are allowed to follow their stories, which gives the EP a wonderfully unpredictable quality.

'Charlotte and the Witch' opens with one of the EP's strongest premises. Built around unrequited love pushed to a dangerous extreme, the song asks what happens when longing becomes desperate enough to seek help from somewhere it probably shouldn't. It immediately establishes 'COVEN' as something where human weakness and supernatural possibility are constantly brushing against one another.

Then 'Blackbird' shifts into a bluesier world, drawing on the old instinct to interpret the natural world as warning. The idea of a bird becoming an omen gives the song a timeless quality, while 'Bedbugs' strips away narrative almost entirely, functioning as a sinister instrumental pause where atmosphere becomes the story.

From there, 'Leechcraft', 'Long Meg' and 'Sister Midnight' deepen the EP's folklore-soaked world.

But what makes it especially effective is its refusal to explain too much. The forces at work might be genuinely supernatural, psychological, symbolic or all three at once, but Until They Burn Me seem more interested in maintaining that uncertainty than resolving it.

There's darkness here, certainly, but the stronger thread is storytelling; exploring old fears, obsessive impulses and inherited myths being pulled into new shapes.

The duo's decades-long musical history gives that looseness confidence. Working between Washington and Ohio, they build the songs collaboratively and allow stylistic boundaries to blur naturally.

In all, 'COVEN' is six songs, six shadows, and just enough left unexplained to make you wonder what followed you home.