Drowner Yellow Swans, by Drowner Yellow Swans

Drowner Yellow Swans

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ALWAYSmusic There really is something special about this album. I'm late to getting into Yellow Swans, and man was I missing out all these years. This album is definitely one of the best examples of the whole American noise scene. Extremely intense listen, but so compelling at the same time. So gritty and skuzzy.

kkona SOME SCARY ASS SHITTTTTTTTTTTTT Favorite track: Seafloor.

Cacophony The fucking best. YS at their best. Missed so many releases when they were at their prime so super stoked to finally grip this! Favorite track: Seafloor.

Gunnison6610 this album is honestly perfect, really glad to see it on bandcamp now. Thanks again Pete and Gabriel, your guys' work is absolutely stunning Favorite track: Seafloor.

pdawggy Dietznuts Yellow Swans Favorite track: Seafloor.

natswing The early part of this here century produced, in my opinion, for what it’s worth, the finest skuzz yet. YS were up there with the best, like way up there. Very few others have managed to combine the sheer levels of filth and beauty these folks did. Like listening to that hippie freak who lives 2 floors down playing Popol Vuh through a shitty PA with like really blown speakers. Just lovely! Thank you YS.@ Favorite track: First Drowner.

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	1.	Sandwall 11:15
	2.	Velvet Water 07:34
	3.	First Drowner 10:48
	4.	Second Drowner 07:11
	5.	Isolation Tank 05:56
	6.	Seafloor 06:40
	7.	Beacons 05:28
	8.	Disjecta 04:36

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Finally! The first broadly available edition of Drowner Yellow Swans lands after a slew of hiccups. So this was originally a tape cobbled together in that space between At All Ends and Going Places. Can't remember if we had decided to wrap up the band at this point, but it was about that time where we were fried from touring, Gabe was thinking about moving to Canada, things were IN MOTION. We had this whole string of shows lined up with Sissy Spacek in the PNW, Wiese had a stack of blank takes and a new imprint. HEY, sounds like it's time for a new tape. Because of the historically ridiculous lag between making an album and it being available to the public, the timeline is a bit weird, but this was essentially following up our last tour tape, Deterioration, which was also just sort of an assembly of basement recordings. We had ditched the idea of compositions at this point and were just JAMMING. and jamming often. Basically, we had a dedicated practice studio and were rehearsing and recording several days a week. Just banging it out and dedicating it all to tape. Both Deterioration and Drowner have this sort of snapshot character of our process, sifting through a state of the band when we were thinking more about one thing than another. If Deterioration is our most kosmiche, I would say that Drowner is our most gonzo psych rock record. still as noisy and fried as ever, but pulling from Loveless, Rallizes, Main.. but also just like... our own insular process of playing and listening and touring and repeating that for years. Drowner was basically recorded months before Going Places and Being There but projects a different focus on dynamics, drama and NOISE. This could be because we were gearing up to play shows with Spacek and knew we'd be playing with The Rita and Iron Lung on this jaunt. Gotta be up to crust you know? - Pete

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released October 1, 2007

Pete Swanson - Electronics, Vocals
GMS - Guitar, Electronics

Cover art by GMS
Thanks Wiese

Originally released on Tape and CDR by Tape Room (TRK 70701)

Released on Vinyl by Yellow Swans Archive 2021 (YSA3)
Remastered by Rashad Becker

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Yellow Swans Portland, Oregon

From their 2001 founding to the duo’s final shows (and subsequent hiatus) in 2008, Gabriel Mindel Saloman and Pete Swanson aka Yellow Swans carved an influential path through America’s experimental music underground, at the axis of noise, psychedelia, industrial, drone, and hardcore. Their music is restless, ragged, and forever in flux, untethered and unresolved. ... more

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