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Sweep the Desert
Sweep the Desert
Swell Maps / CD / 2001
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One scans the eight-page booklet accompanying this release in vain for some clue as to when and for what purpose this material was recorded, and whether it's ever been available before. Just about all the other info you could want
is
here, including a note that
Nikki Sudden
was one of the album's compilers, indicating that this couldn't have been done without his knowledge. Still, even a sweep through the label and artist websites listed on this sleeve leaves no concrete details about this recording in its wake. This leaves us ignoramuses without complete
Swell Maps
discographies to remain ignorant about the sources for these tracks. Like much
Swell Maps
material, these songs are a mixture of abrasive experimental
noise rock
and abrasive
punk rock
(with the odd exception like the pretty, ambient piano-based
"Raining Room"
), surprisingly short on song structure and accessibility given the subsequent solo outings by
Sudden
and fellow
Swell Map
Epic Soundtracks
. Those straight-ahead,
punkish
numbers, like
"Full Moon in My Pocket"
and
"BLAM!!,"
do have the kind of likable verve associated with much very early
British punk
. The oddball percussion-heavy and/or clanging, bleak, noisy instrumentals often seem like ideas in need of fleshing out, or ones that weren't too promising to begin with, even if they did anticipate future trends in
post-punk
. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
Artist
Swell Maps
Format
CD
Genre
Rock
Label Name
Alive
Release Date
2001 01 23
Song List
1: Then Poland (1:06)
2: Full Moon in My Pocket (1:29)
3: Blam!! (3:39)
4: Full Moon (Reprise) (1:03)
5: Big Maz in the Desert (4:02)
6: Big Empty Field [No. 2] (3:13)
7: Don't Throw Ashtrays at Me! (1:14)
8: Midget Submarines (4:29)
9: Bridge Head, Pt. 9 (1:33)
10: Never to See Any Other Way (:38)
11: Doomette (:31)
12: Collision with a Frogman Vs. The Mangrove Delta Plan (8:01)
13: Fashion Cult (2:18)
14: Big Magazine the Country (3:29)
15: Cave Mines (3:18)
16: Avalanche (3:20)
17: Big Empty Field (3:20)
18: Raining in My Room (1:00)
19: The Graveyard Shift (3:36)
Style.Categories
Post-Punk
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