(Just Heard) SWAPS is one noisey supergroup

SWAPS is the result of four very talented experimentalists (Ed Rodriguez and John Dieterich of Deerhoof, Ches Smith of Secret Chiefs 3, and Steve Touchton of XBXRX) banding together for a sonic adventure through bizarrely lush regions. Their self-titled 10-inch, out September 13 on Joyful Noise Recordings, consists of two long, lurching tracks; you can listen to a fragment of "Pair Bonds" here, which confronts the listener with bright rivulets of atonality, elegantly erratic and haltin...

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