They say: Here at Birthday Cake For Breakfast, we like to get to the heart of what an artist is all about. We feel the music they listen to is just as important as the music they make. With that in mind, we’re delighted to have Sam Grant, guitarist in the skull-crushing Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, talking us through five releases that helped shape and inspire their latest album ‘Viscerals‘!... Read the rundown here: Birthday Cake for Breakfast ---
They say: After a warped and abrasive debut, Sex Swing are back with Type II, a collection of new warped and abrasive sonic offerings. Brought to you by the greatest record label in the world, Rocket Recordings. Home of Gnod, Gum Takes Tooth and Pigsx7 amongst others. As far as I’m concerned, there’s a serious drought of brain-bludgeoning psyche music at the moment. Whilst Luminous Bodies, Pigs and Casual Nun have had some fairly heavy releases recently, it seems like most people are kidding themselves with this fucking eyes wide shut jangly shit that seems to avoid rather than attempt social commentary. I want something ugly and heavy and savage to sink my teeth into; something that bites back with a greater enmity than that which I feel tracking our parasitic media day-to-day in this hellish, (barely) covertly fascist dystopia. Sex Swing seem closer to that than pretty much anything else I’ve heard in the past year. What’s happened to our artists? Are you still pretending everything is fine when everything in our society has been on a downward trajectory since as far as I can remember?... Read the rest here:E&D ---
They say: London band Sex Swing consists of Jason Stöll (Bass), vocalist Dan Chandler, drummer Stuart Bell, guitarist Jodie Cox, keyboard player Ollie Knowles and saxophonist Colin Webster. The record will be the band’s first since 2016’s self-titled debut and much anticipated. It will be released on Rocket Recordings on 15th May 2020, also the home to Pigs x7 and Gnod. Jason has been busying himself in the meantime with his most recent project Twin Sister (review) as well as running his label God Unknown Records (read more about it here).
Sex Swing has a history of using grotesque artwork and Type II is no exception! I cannot even begin to fathom what it is that’s on the cover, aside from a vegetarian’s worst nightmare. The band have always had a darkness to their sound and opening track The Passover is true to form, coming off like an early 80s no wave band with some insane free jazz Ornette Coleman influences thrown in. A fine opening number.
Next, we have Skimmington Ride, which takes its name from a form of ‘rough music’ with which the community would publicly shame wrongdoers, a primitive form of doxing perhaps. The track certainly reflects the ugly sent... Read the rest here: The Sleeping Shamen ---
They say: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Viscerals With Matt Baty’s vocals echoing like a benediction from an altar built from burning tyres, the Newcastle band channel the righteous heavy metal thunder of Black Sabbath, with even deeper notes of sludge and doom underneath. The riffs will have you closing your eyes in sheer bliss. Read the full list here: The Guardian ---
Sex Swing have created a special Monday Mix for Dutch Magazine Gonzo Circus. Listen here: Monday Mix And if you pick-ip the latest issue of the magazine you will be greeted by an interview with the band and the ferocious single The Passover is included on the free cover-mount CD Find out more here: Gonzo Circus ---
They say: Featuring members of Mugstar, Bonnacons of Doom, Dethscalator, Earth, and who knows how many other projects from the UK underground and beyond, Sex Swing’s second LP Type II sees the ragtag supergroup inject renewed looseness to the psychedelic noise rock of their 2016 debut. That crucial distance of four-odd years is clear from the offset. Sex Swing failed to carry much dynamic variation, but it isn’t long until the ominous near-silence of Type II’s opener ‘The Passover’ is shattered by a battering ram from a band apparently in medias res on a squalling jam (adjust headphone volume accordingly, dear reader). Where jump scares are supposed to provide catharsis, Sex Swing sustain a volatile intensity across Type II that only instills the fear of more shocks just around the corner.
Musical vamps are owed their due as much as ever for accommodating such a hostile atmosphere, but the economy of sound on ‘Skimmington Ride’ and ‘Valentine’s Day at the Gym’ keep things heightened — the former mostly vibing off a spare, dissonant two-note phrase; the latter obversely remaining full-bodied and viscous throughout — hinting at maturity in improved musicianship, something often overlooked in something this elemental. The vital saxophone work of Colin Webster consistently irritates the side of every groove with underlying malignancy..
The guys from Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs have each made a Spotify playlists to keep you entertained in these lockdown times...sit back and enjoy: Chris Sam Johnny Matt Adam ---
They say: The new Sex Swing album may be punishing and disquieting, but there is a point to all the sickness and gore, finds Adam Lehrer The closing track off of London-based psych-noise rock band Sex Swing’s second full-length album, Type II, is called ‘Garden of Eden – 2000 AD‘. The song is a slow-build. A slovenly paced snare drum leads to a simple, muted guitar chord progression when singer Dan Chandler's breathy, monotone, Peter Murphy-esque vocals start to lurk over the surface of the sound, punctuated by saxophonist Colin Webster’s melodious squalls of tenor. The song lesiurely constructs itself atop that initial rhythmic swirl. It’s like rock ‘n’ roll approximated as initiate to an occultist ceremony And then, around the seven minute marker, it explodes. Guitar feedback lights the speakers ablaze. Webster starts skronking his horn like he’s Ayler in the throes of amphetamine psychosis, imprisoned in an imaginary cell made of panic.
There is a cathartic religiosity to the music of Sex Swing. During this era of sorrow and anxiety, Sex Swing remind us of the restorative powers of rock. Julia Kristeva said that melancholia results when religion fails to rationalise the immensity of one’s loss. But Type II, with all its ritualised cathartic sound, can also be a last line of defence between you and infinite sorrow. It forges a protective layer of blissfully thick and spastic psychedelic rock ‘n’ roll that lends you its strength and grasps you tight, preventing you from slipping deeper into that black abyss. This is violent and chaotic rock music that can help you make sense of the world... Read the rest here: The Quietus ----
Chris from Rocket was invited by Spring Chicken Records – the label run By Luke Spinks from (Josefin Öhrn +) The Liberation to play some Rocket music and say a couple of words about the tracks on their next weekly Spring Chicken Broadcast show,: “Record Label” Special Friday 8 May 7.30pm - 11pm Playing music from Factory Records and Warp Rocket Recordings guest mix 9pm
They say: GNOD and João Pais Filipe have announced the release of Faca De Fogo; Getintothis’ Matthew Eland reports with the details.
Cabalistic sonic explorers GNOD have teamed up with Portuguese percussionist João Pais Filipe. The resulting record, Faca De Fogo – a collaborative release between Rocket Recordings and Portuguese label Lovers and Lollipops – will be available on July 3, 2020.
Both parties originally met at Milhoes De Festa event in Barcelos, where the Salford crew were intrigued by a skateboard-shaped gong made by João. Numbers were exchanged and plans were forged for the GNOD crew to join the percussionist in his native city of Porto. Three days of rehearsals were consolidated at one of GNOD’s legendary R&D evenings in the city, and this was followed by four days of recording in João’s metal workshop. A taster of the album gives us some idea of what to expect.
Faca De Fogo is eastern drone with tribal rhythms. It’s atonal, off-kilter beats and haunted sweat-lodge clamour... Read the rest here: GIT ---
