Swanmay to Release Frantic Feel April 20
Austrian heavy rockers Swanmay have set an April 20 release for their second album, Frantic Feel. Running seven songs and a readily-digestible 35 minutes with the initial bounce of “Mashara” unfolding into the Sungrazer-esque low end and melody of “Cats + Snails,” the new record comes some six years after the trio’s 2017 debut, Stoner Circus (review here), and has clearly been in the works for some time, as side B’s “Stone-Cold” and “Old Trails” both appeared in a live session (posted here) in 2021 that, in part, was intended to herald this full-length. Plans, blah blah. These are the times in which we live.
There are no shortage of releases coming out on April 20, because weed, but from the richness of their guitar and bass tones to the laid back grit in the vocals to the procession of grooves throughout, Frantic Feel doesn’t immediately come across as one might expect given its title, but the fuzz in “Dead End” and the centerpiece “Blooze” is more than welcome and the band seem to know it. Might fly under this or that radar in terms of buzz, but think of this as a heads up not to miss it. Two singles are already streaming if you’d like to get introduced (they’re at the bottom of the post) and a third is set to follow early next month.
PR wire info follows:
SWANMAY – Frantic Feel
Austria’s Heavy-Rocker in SWANMAY will release their second full length album FRANTIC FEEL on April 20th, 2023 on Independent Audio Management.
SWANMAY is a Doom inspired Stoner Grunge trio from Linz, Austria, founded in 2014.
With amp-walls, aluminium guitars and an arsenal of fuzz pedals they were able to manifest their distinctive heavy stoner sound and play dozens of shows and tours all over Europe as a support for Kadavar, Truckfighters, Brant Bjork, The Atomic Bitchwax, Elder, Ufommamut and many more.
Exactly six years after the first LP STONER CIRCUS has seen the light of day it’s now time for the follow-up FRANTIC FEEL!
The first two singles CATS + SNAILS and STONE-COLD are already online on Spotify & Co., third one MASHARA will follow on April 7th.
Tracklisting:
1. Mashara
2. Cats + Snails
3. the Art of Death
4. Blooze
5. Stone-Cold
6. Old Trails
7. Dead End
„locked down during covid with only my guitars and some home recording equipment i started collecting song ideas. it was challenging at first to find the right mood for the record and the whole writing process quickly began to feel like some kind of therapy. but ultimately i managed to convey my ideas in a way that matches with our style of music.“ – Patrick Àlvaro
„producing this album came with it’s own set of unique challenges: rehearsing and recording during a global pandemic, when you’re not supposed to meet anyone at all. recording the whole thing a second time because we didn’t like the first version. and last but not least having to get my head and brain scanned due to some kind of facial paralysis. at least i could use that last one for the design of the album artwork.“ – Chri Zao
„writing these songs felt surprisingly natural. i only joined the band for two rehearsals before we did the first live demos for the entire album, but in those recordings the main essence of our sound was already there. it’s the feeling of those initial demos that we wanted to capture on the actual record: a raw, uncompromising rock performance.“ – Niklas Lueger
Swanmay is:
Patrick Àlvaro – Fuzz / Vox
Chris Kaderle – Low End / Vox
Niklas Lueger – Drums
https://www.facebook.com/Swanmay
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https://linktr.ee/swanmay
https://swanmay.bandcamp.com/album/frantic-feel
https://open.spotify.com/artist/67b2649xjNCOZGpUuQuibf?si=E0utt8oKQi6XzHM0WgGvnA
https://www.youtube.com/@Swanmay/videos
