★Yellow Swans Archive
Out Of Practice II
This tape is a weird one. We’re calling it a “covers album”, which in our fried brains it is, but you might disagree. When our first two gigs in 15 years landed on our calendar we wanted to do something unexpected, a ‘live one night only’ kind of thing. We're always improvising everything, but as OOP1 may (or may not) have demonstrated we usually go into our live sets with some kind of plan — a set of moves, themes, approaches, ideas, structures or feelings that we call “songs” but that probably…
Out Of Practice I
Getting back to playing was a whole thing. Neither of us had been playing much music and weren't sure how we'd get back to it since we live pretty far apart and had opted in to playing shows. We always leaned on improvisation in our sets and our last few years were entirely improvisational, so we decided we'd create a few frameworks for playing our live gigs to give us something to lean on. In a sense, "songs" but VERRRRY loose. So here's a tape documenting two very different versions of one of …
Drowner
First ever vinyl pressing of Yellow Swans’ incredible 2007 noise tempest, originally deployed on ultra-limited edition of just 60 cassettes back in 2007, ‘Drowner’ was one of the legendary duo’s fiercest deployments of scorched earth noise-gaze
Being There
First ever vinyl edition 'Being There', one of the final Yellow Swans recordings, widely regarded among their most powerful works. It's a lushly eviscerating, white-hot, elemental noise and dronescape session primed for endtimes, essential listening if yr into anything from Deathprod to Dilloway.
Going Places
The whelming noise swells of Yellow Swans’ final album, or swansong if u allow, resurface on the legendary band’s new archival imprint, marking 10 years since the seminal Type release with a timely reminding of its oceanic might and eternal burn.
As anyone who survived the fecund ‘00s noise scene will attest, Gabriel Saloman and Pete Swanson’s Yellow Swans were among the most vital visionaries of new horizons for noise. Using obsolete electronics/guitars/FX pedals and playing countless shows, th…