Swansea Sound: Music Lover
(Skep Wax)
CD/Obtain/Streaming
Out Now
Swansea Sound’s newest launch Music Lover is out now, launched as a part of a 3 monitor CD EP inside a particular Christmas Card.
For these unfamiliar, Swansea Sound are one thing of an Indie Supergroup. The quintet comprising of Hue Williams (vocals); Amelia Fletcher (vocals); Ian Button (drums): Rob Pursey (guitars and bass) and Bob Collins (guitar).
Music Lover is a brief, punk-pop tribute (though not a complimentary one) to Daniel Ek, Swedish billionaire entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Spotify. As a festive gesture to the Swede, the band shall be releasing it on Spotify, simply in order that he receives a lot of the monetary profit. (The band so far have virtually managed to boycott all streaming providers since their debut in 2020).
In addition to the lead monitor, the EP consists of Pleased Christmas To Me and Merry Christmas Darlings which beforehand featured on a restricted version 7” single that bought out in a short time final Christmas.
Pleased Christmas To Me, described by one critic as ‘the Christmas tune the Buzzcocks would have written’ extends heat Yuletide emotions to Ek, in addition to his buddies Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos. Merry Christmas Darlings is a type of glam-rock cowl model of a tune by Low-cost Trick. On this model, the ‘occasion sequence’ on the finish of the tune sees the 4 billionaires reunited, jovially exchanging company mission statements with one another.
The self proclaimed Company Indie Band will launch a brand new album in 2023. Their first, Stay At The Rum Puncheon was launched to appreciable acclaim in 2021 included quite a few properly acquired singles together with the Prime 10 7” semi-smash Indies Of The World.
Folks wishing to purchase the CD EP can achieve this through Bandcamp and have the Christmas card signed by the band, or left clean to allow them to write their very own festive messages to family members.
You will discover Swansea Sound on Fb, Instagram, Twitter and Bandcamp.
All phrases by Iain Key. See his creator profile right here or discover him on Twitter as @iainkey
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