Music / rock

Future ruins


Reviews (4)


PopMatters

d. 22. Jan. 2019

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Ian King

d. 22. Jan. 2019

"Swervedriver have always connected with devoted music heads -- Grammy winner and Future Ruins engineer TJ Dougherty first came to the attention of the band years ago when he was a fan in the front row at every show they played in New York -- but the potential to reach a wider audience was always there, too. To that end, the instantly hummable "Drone Lover" and "Spiked Flower" of the album's mid-tempo middle could be a sign that the desire to give the postman something to whistle might finally be catching up with them. Whether or not Future Ruins is the record that finally breaks Swervedriver through to the masses, it shows the band are still making their own breakthroughs".


The 405

d. 25. Jan. 2019

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Todd Dedman

d. 25. Jan. 2019

"Swervedriver were something of an anomaly on Creation Records back in the early 1990s. Too centred on Americana-style themes of travelling and escape to justifiably be labelled shoegaze, too noisy to be crusty, too crusty looking to be post-punk - this was a band with identity problems for the general public at large ... Where previously the band soared and looked to the horizon for hope, they now seem as filled with dread and despair for the future as the rest of us".


Jyllands-posten

d. 31. Mar. 2019

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Kasper Schütt-Jensen

d. 31. Mar. 2019

"Oxford-bandet Swervedriver udgav støjende mesterværker som 'Mescal Head' i storhedstiden i 1990'erne, og ligesom de musikalsk ligesindede kolleger i eksempelvis Ride og My Bloody Valentine turnerer og indspiller bandet igen. Nej, Swervedriver er ikke ligefrem banebrydende i opbygningen af støjende popsange på dette album, men kan man lide britisk støjrock, fra før alt blev til britpop, kan denne plade varmt anbefales".


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d. 19. Feb. 2019

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Ralf Christensen

d. 19. Feb. 2019

"Engelske Swervedriver, synes med deres kun sjette album at være vendt tilbage til gerningsstedet, til det mesterlige debutalbum Raise fra 1991. Future Ruins er her 28 år senere endnu et vildt elguitarforsiret udtryk med forsanger og mesterguitarist Adam Franklins røgstemme ... Det går langsommere og kedeligere end i bandets ungdom, og der bliver hugget mindre energisk på Future Ruins. Ja, på titelnummeret mindes vi om, at al arkitektur er fremtidige ruiner. Men de allersmukkeste, melankolskmelodiske sange sætter sig alligevel som en behagelig træthed i skelettet ... Og elguitaren er stadig et forunderligt foranderligt instrument i Franklins hænder. Han lægger lag på lag af melodi, klang, flydetoner (...) Og dermed holder han Swervedriver i fortsat dialog med en svunden tid".