Swearin'

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艺人: Swearin'
语种: 英语
厂牌: Salinas
发行时间: 2012年06月01日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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Swearin' channels the feeling of being in your early-to-mid 20s in the most intuitive way: scrappy, snarky rock, unshakeable hooks, and genuine lyrics. On "Fat Chance" Crutchfield promises to leave home ("I'll move out of this house/ I will get my own place") and makes existential realizations ("Forever is a long time"); on "Hundreds and Thousands" she offers images of a hellish blue ocean, seedy motels, and dive bars before settling on moving east. Self-doubt and transience are recurring themes, and the acute details that permeate each song make them sound fit for only a small circle of friends (which is basically what's been going on for Swearin'). On mini-anthem "Movie Star", Crutchfield muses on one of young adulthood's most essential truths: "You and me don't earn much pay/ But you and me got enough to get away/ If we want to."

"Kenosha" is Crutchfield's best song here, making charming use of words like "precariously" and "malignant" before hitting the thoroughly impatient (and also ebullient) chorus: "I hope you like Kenosha so much you stay there forever, and we all lose touch," she sings, with a touch of evil. It's a forthright, cutting sentiment that affirms Crutchfield's stance as an eloquent lyrical fighter, one she began to set with "What a Dump", a demo track about street harassment and "and how much it sucks" that is regretfully absent from the album.

Gilbride can also be exceptionally poignant, with a habit of singing specific verses that conclude on brilliantly resonant lines. "Here to Hear", in particular, conveys a real sense of post-college disorientation and uncertainty. "Moving back here/ Feeling too self aware," he sings, emotively. "I keep thinking/ Is this as good as it gets?" Elsewhere he sounds pissed off (the rocket-fire "Crashing"), and his guitar solos, though accomplished, also show restraint. On the soft-strummed downer ballad "Empty Head", he sounds like J Mascis without the mountains of noise: "It's sad to want it back/ My time again/ It's not like anything was better then." For a record that on the surface seems characterized by its outpouring of energy, it's beguiling to find that the saddest Swearin' song is also one of its most memorable.

A sappy verse-trading love song seems inevitable for

Swearin'; the immensely hooky "Just" works due in no small part to Crutchfield and Gilbride's ability to paint evocative images. Crutchfield recounts sticky skin and streetlights and a first encounter with love, and later her internal musings are matched by Kyle's simultaneous self-loathing: "I came in empty and I broke the lock/ It's dark around me/ Overslept and I'm alone a lot/ No one's asking." It feels like a film that flips between scenes. For all the parallels to twee pop of the 1990s, and the many bands who have drawn similar indie rock reference points in recent years, Swearin' favors direct expression over style, something Crutchfield articulates early on "Fat Chance": "An artist's mind is stimulated by the aesthetic/ And I don't know about art/ But I think your music's shit." That line could alienate some listeners, but it's refreshing to find a group that sounds sincerely as though it's got nothing to hide.

Swearin'

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