Swervedriver – Future Ruins [Baby Blue Vinyl]

UK Shoegaze legends, now on baby blue vinyl! Future Ruins achieves everything an admirer could ask of the reunited bands new albumSwervedriver now posses a melancholic, autumnal undertow that suits them like a little distinguished grey in the whiskersa career-best peakFuture Ruins pulls off a canny trick, perfectly channeling their past, while making sense in the present 4 stars, MOJO The spacious, Neil Young-ian rumbling of the title track and the bulked-up power-pop of Spiked Flower both see co-founders Adam Franklin and Jimmy Hartridge venture beyond the template of Raise and Mezcal Head without making the faithful worry theyve ditched their distortion pedals 7/10, Uncut That first song, Mary Winter, is a heavy wave of swirling guitar fuzz offset by the soothing balm of Franklins voice. StereogumA1. Mary Winter A2. The Lonely Crowd Fades In The Air A3. Future Ruins A4. Theeascending A5. Drone Lover B1. Spiked Flower B2. Everybody’s Going Somewhere & No-One’s Going Anywhere B3. Golden Remedy B4. Good Times Are So Hard To Follow B5. Radio-Silent