The previous album of Displacer, Cage Fighter’s Lullaby, showed an intelligent electronic sound with influences taken from drum ‘n bass, breakbeat, idm and downtempo electronic music. The bass plays a major part in this sound and the presence of this instrument has been enhanced further on this new recording. The sound is more organic and acoustic, but also contains the atmospheric electronic layers and drum patterns. The production has been made a bit lo-fi in character on purpose, but it does not affect the sound or effect of the rhythms at all.   The new album is in musical respect less varied compared to the previous album though. The tone often is a bit moody and melancholic, yet the rhythms and great melodies keep it all very lively. Another striking thing is that the hiphop influence is more present on this recording. Combined with the orchestral layers, drums and violin sounds it comes it more than once resembles the work of DJ Shadow. Thematically Displacer utilises old horror movies on The Witching Hour and this atmosphere is translated well.

If you are in search of the sphere of 90s triphop towards Portishead, yet without the sentiment and with some more musical experiment, you’ll be satisfied with Displacer. Also fans of Scorn will know what to do with this album. Personal favourites are the tracks ‘He Could Destroy the Earth’, which sounds hypnotising, and contains heavy industrial sounds  as well, and shows how Displacer introduces a really thick groove, and next to that the track ‘Warriors in Gods Army’ which contains beautiful melodies. Remixes are present from artists such as Diff_Cult, L’Ombre, Larvae, Autoclav 1.1 and ESA. Especially the remix from Larvae is impressive. What is also impressive and is often forgotten in reviews, is the artwork of a release. In this case it however deserves extra attention since The Witching Hour has stunning artwork with the picture at the front cover of the new Displacer cd. Although it is not as varied, original and ingenious as the previous recording,  it is still a great accomplishment.