{"id":30333,"date":"2019-01-13T12:15:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T17:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=30333"},"modified":"2019-01-12T07:26:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T12:26:51","slug":"swervedriver-share-spiked-flower-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=30333","title":{"rendered":"Swervedriver share &#8216;Spiked Flower&#8217; video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SWERVEDRIVER-2-CREDIT_-STEVE-GULLICK.jpg?resize=1024%2C682\" alt=\"Swervedriver\" class=\"wp-image-30336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SWERVEDRIVER-2-CREDIT_-STEVE-GULLICK.jpg?resize=1024%2C682 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SWERVEDRIVER-2-CREDIT_-STEVE-GULLICK.jpg?resize=300%2C200 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SWERVEDRIVER-2-CREDIT_-STEVE-GULLICK.jpg?resize=768%2C512 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SWERVEDRIVER-2-CREDIT_-STEVE-GULLICK.jpg?resize=624%2C416 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SWERVEDRIVER-2-CREDIT_-STEVE-GULLICK.jpg?w=2000 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Photo credit: Steve Gullick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Swervedriver have shared the video for <em>Spiked Flower<\/em>, which is lifted from their forthcoming album &#8216;Future Ruins&#8217;. The album is out on January 25 via Dangerbird Records. You can check out the video via YouTube below. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tgDmmQz2Y5M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201c When recording Spiked Flower, everything went very Television for a moment&#8230; We were in downtown LA and Television came and played next door to the hotel we were staying at. On the Sunday, as I walked to pick up my laundry, I saw Tom Verlaine climb into a car on a side street and then Jimmy had this riff and I started singing \u201cWhy don\u2019t you talk to me?\u201d to it and it made me think of Marquee Moon. It didn\u2019t sound like them in the end though&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new Swervedriver album is titled\u00a0&#8216;Future Ruins,&#8217; a two-word pr\u00e9cis of its dread thrills. It opens with\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ymlp50.net\/41befhqueyapaehejuafauymanauujsu\/click.php\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Winter<\/a><\/em>, a song narrated by a recognizable Swervedriver archetype: a traveler, hurtling away from this world. \u201cPlanet Earth long gone\/And my feet won\u2019t touch the ground.\u201d But where is the traveler headed? And why? The second song,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ymlp50.net\/83dfdhqumsalaehejuaxauymazauujsu\/click.php\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Lonely Crowd Fades In The Air<\/em><\/a>, offers some possible answers: \u201c<em>We\u2019ve stumbled into the end of days\/Where the future comes home to cry\u2026\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of foreboding on this album,<\/em>\u201d agrees Adam Franklin.\u00a0<em>\u201cSpace is in there a lot too. In the first song, the character is a spaceman who\u2019s trying to remember what life is really like. Also, it could be about somewhere in the world where winter isn\u2019t like the winter here. A sunny place, but it\u2019s December or January and you\u2019re trying to remember winter. Something\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That something began in October 2017,\u00a0with a two-week stint with Franklin, Hartridge,\u00a0Mikey Jones\u00a0(drums) and\u00a0Mick Quinn\u00a0(bass) tracking at MAKE Records Studio in Los Angeles. Having made\u00a0&#8216;I Wasn\u2019t Born To Lose You&#8217;\u00a0hard on the heels of an Australian tour, the band decided to repeat the process and bottle the momentum of a just-completed US tour performing both\u00a0&#8216;Raise&#8217;\u00a0and\u00a0&#8216;Mezcal Head&#8217;\u00a0in their entirety.\u00a0<em>\u201cThat\u2019s a good way to record<\/em>,\u201d says Adam,\u00a0<em>\u201cbecause you\u2019ve literally just seen the whites of the audience\u2019s eyes and you\u2019re thinking, \u2018If that audience from last night were here now\u2026\u2019 You can\u2019t get too mellow. We came home with 30 different songs.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0There\u00a0quickly followed a further 10 days\u2019 vocals and overdubs at Seaside Studios in Brighton.\u00a0Stoking the creative energies was engineer TJ Doherty. A Grammy winner for his work on Wilco\u2019s\u00a0&#8216;A Ghost Is Born,&#8217; his diverse credit list also includes Lou Reed and Steely Dan, Stephen Malkmus and Joanna Newsom, Sonic Youth and Selfish Cunt. But the band knew him in a previous life, from their first decade of existence. \u201c<em>He was a fan,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>says Adam.\u00a0<em>\u201cWe first met because he was down the front at all the gigs in New York and New Jersey a long lost time ago. He ended up going to engineering school and worked on all these cool records.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final 10 tracks were then mixed in spring 2018, as the band toured Europe \u2013 again, infusing the recordings with road-slick fumes.\u00a0<em>Future Ruins<\/em>\u00a0exhibits Swervedriver\u2019s fabled widescreen escapism, but with a tension that echoes a sleeve image of Coney Island in skeletal monochrome (from an original photo by Spencer Bewley), like a post mortem photograph of a failed utopia. The title song offers a grim assessment of humanity\u2019s current condition: \u201cWe are ruled by fools\/These are future ruins\/That the king is insane\/Is now old news.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThat was an early lyric, I sang that one in LA, one of about three or four that I sang there,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0notes Adam. \u201c<em>It just came out. A rage at the state of the world<\/em>.&#8221; There\u2019s more where that came from.\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ymlp50.net\/3e9b6hqumuafaehejuaaauymacauujsu\/click.php\" target=\"_blank\">Drone Lover<\/a><\/em>, a song that predates the last album, is a comment on the depersonalized nature of 21st century techno-warfare. For all its melody\u2019s humming mood elevation, <em>The Lonely Crowd Fades In The Air<\/em> feels like an elegy, with one crushing couplet after another: \u201cChoose your colors wisely\/Because things ain\u2019t the same as in days gone by.\u201d That song\u2019s title \u2013 \u201c<em>it has a resonance that fits with these times,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>says Adam \u2013 evokes the alienation wrought by the mass embrace of so-called \u2018social\u2019 media; a perspective on our contemporary malaise that\u2019s also echoed in <em>Everybody\u2019s Going Somewhere And No-One\u2019s Going Anywhere<\/em>, a spoken word dreamscape.\u00a0 \u201c<em>Everybody\u2019s got the same amount of time on the planet,\u201d explains Adam. \u201cThere might be a couple in Italy, 90 years old, they\u2019ve been married for 70, they\u2019ve never left the country, and they might possibly have had a better life than the person running around who gets a heart attack at 40 after earning 2 million dollars.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0The trip ends with <em>Radio-Silent<\/em>\u2019s ghostly seven-minute afterburn, its lyric comprising just 26 words: \u201cWe\u2019re all so alone\/And we all have to live as one\/And we all must exist as one\/And we all must resist as one.\u201d The track ends with police sirens and an electronic snap. \u201c<em>It\u2019s loud, but it\u2019s impotent rage,<\/em>\u201d says Adam. \u201c<em>Everything is completely fucked up. There\u2019s no coming back from that one.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the journey\u2019s over, and yet Swervedriver ride on. Just as there was never any thought of\u00a0&#8216;I Wasn\u2019t Born To Lose You&#8217;\u00a0being a last hurrah for old time\u2019s sake,\u00a0&#8216;Future Ruins&#8217;\u00a0presents a band moving with real time\/real life vitality. It showcases new tricks and classic hallmarks: pop songs which don\u2019t have choruses, like <em>Mary Winter<\/em>; odd arrangements and weird contrasts, like\u00a0<em>Spiked Flower<\/em>\u2019s rock\u2019n\u2019roll grind breaking out to acknowledge English landscape painter John Constable; and a lyric that references Echo &amp; The Bunnymen. 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