4/25/2023 0 Comments Melodics subscription crackSwervedriver tend to be labelled a shoegaze band, and the Kevin Shields-esque whammy bar wobbling and effects-pedal fetishism shoe fits on Never Lose That Feeling and Rave Down. Supergrass’s Mick Quinn fills in on bass for the absent Steve George. Cap-wearing singer and guitarist Adam Franklin’s crusty dreadlocks have been wisely shorn and committed to memories of washed-out looking videos on early 90s MTV. Opener Autodidact, the chorus hook of which sounds as if it wants to break into Teenage Fanclub’s I Need Direction, suggests they’ve lost none of their dreamy dissonance, but they retain a frustrating habit of nervously burying vocals six feet deep in the mix. ![]() I Wasn’t Born to Lose You, Swervedriver’s first new album in 17 years, prompted this latest tour, but there have been a few since they reformed in 2008, 10 years after a split occasioned by failing commercial fortunes. As legend has it, he signed the band immediately after listening to the tape while cruising around LA in a limousine. After all, it was Ride’s Mark Gardener who handed a copy of his fellow Oxford natives’ demo to Creation Records boss Alan McGee in 1989. ![]() ![]() I t’s a funny coincidence that Swervedriver are playing Glasgow in the same week that Ride make their return to the UK stage for the first time in 20 years, at the city’s Barrowland.
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