Sex Swing Release ‘Golden Triangle’
Sex Swing have announced details of their third studio album, Golden Triangle, set for release on 4 October 2024 via God Unknown Records.
“Sex Swing are back and more massive than ever.” The Quietus
“…has a Biblical intensity to it, utterly coruscating and wildly unsettling.” Clash
“Now is the time for artists to voice the disillusionment, desolation and depression of not just a generation, but an entire society… We need bands like Sex Swing right now…”
Echoes and Dust
“Order and chaos rule Type II… It takes remarkable tact to have such opposing forces play together so amicably.” Loud & Quiet
The locals call it Sop Ruak – eighty thousand square miles of mountains and mystery and unholy medicine. “It really is an endless seam of activity,” Sex Swing frontman Dan Chandler explains of the region between Myanmar, Thailand and Laos that inspired the title of their new album. To know this contradictory corner of the world is to understand fully why the cult-beloved noise-rock artisans turned to it when writing their hotly anticipated third full-length. The real-life Golden Triangle is a groundswell of both natural wonder and drug production, and who combines beauty and narcotic brutality better than Sex Swing?
For a decade now, this collective of revered UK underground musicians, comprising members of Earth, Mugstar, The Keep and Jaaw, have been pulling audiences into drug-like slipstreams with their alchemy of pummeling rhythms, towering guitars, and unrelenting saxophone through which glimmers of light occasionally pierce through. No wonder their Golden Triangle is an album telling distortion-shrouded tales from one of the most storied, enigmatic places on the planet, with enough invention within to fill eighty thousand miles and more.
The album sees the band – completed by bassist Jason Stoll, drummer Stuart Bell, guitarist Jodie Cox, synthesist/guitarist Oli Knowles and saxophonist Colin Webster – on a violent, hypnotic aural travelogue through the region, underlining the evolution Sex Swing have undertaken since forming in 2014. From the raw and primitive sounds of the self-titled debut full-length, followed up by the coruscating Type II in 2020. Sex Swing’s third effort retains those early primitive elements and adds layers of structure and complexity.
Golden Triangle’s initial formation was that of programmed beats and bedroom recordings shared electronically in the height of the pandemic. Those ideas were then completed during intensive writing sessions at a secluded farm in Oxfordshire before the album was recorded by Stanley Gravett at Holy Mountain Studios in Hackney, The album was mixed by Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse, mastered by James Plotkin, the band continued their collaboration with artist Alex Bunn, who has created the cover. Golden Triangle bristles with a rawness familiar to fans of the British sonic punishers, but adds new elements indicative of a group never resting on their laurels or sitting in one place. Why would they, after all? There’s an entire world of mountains and mystery and unholy medicine out there to be explored. The Golden Triangle, it seems, is just the beginning.
'Boten, Route 13' single out 16th August.
‘Golden Triangle’ is out on the 4th October via God Unknown Records.
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SHOWS
God Unknown 10th Anniversary Show
Walthamstow Trades Hall
Saturday 5th October, 2024
Featuring: SEX SWING, Duke Garwood, Rainbow Grave, SNEERS, Cassels, The Jonny Halifax Invocation, Dez Dare, Laura Loriga and DRIFT. with visuals by Sam Wiehl.
