Review -
Swervedriver “These Times”
single on
Cortex/SWD through Shock!
Brit-pop is eating itself!
Bands who once had a definitive sound are now turing to the aural expressions
of other British artists and adopting them as their own for an outing or two. Blur’s
current single has Jarvis
coming over all David
Bowie, while “These Times”,
Swervedriver’s
new single on Cortex/SWD through Shock!
sees the band taking an Oasis
approach, both jingly-jangly and vocally.
Homeless
Homecoming, recorded live at Sydney’s Metro in May
this year is the ambience of the evening while the cover of T-Rex’s
Chateau in Virginia Waters follows
both the ambient suit and the 90s Brit-jingle to create yet another sonic
experiment.
If you have the album “99th Dream”, grab this
single as an example of where they’re going since then. For mine, however, the
release is more an example of other people’s work than their own, and doesn’t
do anyone any justice ««¶