[5] The lineup for the album includes Dywer, drummer Nick Murray, saxophonist Brad Caulkins, keyboardist Tom Dolas, and bassist Greg Coates.

Witch Egg was announced in November 2020 along with lead single "Greener Pools",[6] accompanied by a statement that the album was "an improvised set of songs by John Dwyer, Nick Murray, Brad Caulkins, Greg Coates & Tom Dolas", and was "recorded and mixed at Stu-Stu-Studio by John Dwyer.

[8][9] Pitchfork called the album "an instrumental jazz-garage chimera that's far-out enough to escape predictability and ghoulish enough to go bump in the night.

Normally, I tend to accent how an album starts and ends in order to underline what I otherwise refer to as its narrative quality.

"[4] All tracks are written by John Dwyer, Nick Murray, Brad Caulkins, Tom Dolas, and Greg Coates.