Blonder Tongue Audio Baton
This was The Swirlies‘ first full-length album, released by Taang! records, and it’s really something special. They are often compared to My Bloody Valentine, and with good reason. As soon as the opener Bell starts you can see the similarities. Quiet moments juxtaposed with loud, brash crashes of noise. The entire album feels hazy, fuzzy, dreamy. When I listened to this album I was also reminded of some of Sonic Youth’s stuff, particularly Daydream Nation, and perhaps Murray Street. It’s the wall of noise you notice immediately. Somewhere in all that fuzz, there is a melody, and softly sung harmonies. Each song is riddled with fuzzy sounds and a sense of otherness you just can’t quite put your finger on.
Pancake and Jeremy Parker are disorientating slices of dream-pop; spooky, atmospheric, and hypnotic. Jeremy Parker especially has a sound that can only be described as huge. To me it encapsulates what this sort of music is all about. You will be shocked at just how similar this song is to Sonic Youth’s earlier stuff, too. Still, the heavy fuzz of the guitars never feels overdone or too aggressive. The entire album has an aura of comatosed rock music, as if you’re listening to music being played several rooms and several floors away. Songs like His Life of Academic Freedom and the gorgeous ender Wait Forever have a soft, lilting sound that washes over you.
Perhaps less importantly, this album is one of those records that’s perfect for fucking to. I don’t know how important this is to you, but it certainly makes it worthwhile for me. Check it out some time, you’ll like it.
Buy this album from Amazon.
Download from MediaFire. (128 kbps only.) Link withheld till I get permission!
Track listing:
- Untitled
- Bell
- Vigilant Always
- His Love Just Washed Away
- His Life Of Academic Freedom
- Pancake
- Jeremy Parker
- Park The Car By The Side Of The Road
- Tree Chopped Down
- Wrong Tube
- Wait Forever
O RLY? How do you know to quantify that final paragraph’s statement, hmm? Have you tested this theory? With someone that was not me? Rrrrrrrrr.
I like Pancake and Jeremy Parker best I think. At the moment anyway. I didn’t realise they had worked with Mew as well as being their fave band! Cool. Fuzz fuzz fuzz. Mwah.
C’mon, this was the first thing you thought of when you heard the album. Admit it!
Well maybe, but that doesn’t prove anything, I think about such things all the time. You so totally slanked away with the swirliewhirlies!
Slank is an Indonesian rock band, apparently! Who knew?
They be getting a listen then, on principle alone. I’ve set my comments section to have a maximum of TEN LEVELS of indentation, by the way. This is indent number four. I wonder how skinny things start to get when we get past 7 levels deep.
Let’s find out! Though I might try to go back to sleep for an hour or so after this one.
That’s all right. I can carry on all by myself. And often do!
Diddlydiddlydiddlydiddlydiddly boom TISH!
That drum solo isn’t nearly long enough.
‘Tisn’t nearly long enough? That’s what *I* said!
(& You need to change your blog’s time zone to UTC+1!)
I really walked into that one, didn’t I. Perfect set-up. I’ll go change the time-zone. And we’ve now reached MAXIMUM INDENTATION. I’ll indent you in a minute!
And now I’m going to make a sine wave.
Sine wave!
Sine wave! To the max!
The best sine wave ever!
More sine wave goodness!
It just keeps sine waving!
More sine waves!!
Or was it a sine wave!?
Siiiiiiine waaaaaaaave!
You can walk into me and indent me nine more times now! Yay (x9)!
OH NO it’s all doomy and grey!!! And you’ve done so many more posts than me you put me to shame. No face, uh?
Yeah, I do seem to have gone a little overboard with the posting. I’m sure I’ll settle down soon enough.