Materializer: New Band Features Former Members of The Swell Fellas
In the parlance of the internet circa 2015, The Swell Fellas did nothing wrong. During their run from 2020-2024, the Nashville trio released three albums, the last of which, Residuum Unknown (review here), came out in 2024 concurrent to their disbanding. And until this past weekend, that was pretty much the story of it. Working with producer Ben McLeod (All Them Witches), The Swell Fellas, who were the three-piece of guitarist/vocalist Conner Poole, drummer Chris Poole and bassist Mark Rohrer, were able to harness a sound that was likewise divergent in its atmosphere and direct in its crush. The short version is they went out on their best record yet, and were a band pushing the limits of genre, which is always a tough one to lose in the great continuum of who does and doesn’t decide to be a band anymore.
All of this is to say that The Swell Fellas left off giving the distinct impression they had more to say — that their creative progression was in motion — and Materializer is the new project where, hopefully, that progression will be realized. It’s more than just a name change, since the new band is Conner and Chris as a duo, and presumably the low end will be full regardless, but it’s not like The Swell Fellas‘ sound was broken or locked into being something specific by audience expectation — they kept it pretty broad to start with — so I wouldn’t expect Materializer to… materialize… at such great remove from where the Pooles left off.
They didn’t have much to say about it, other than that the band exists. That’s good news as far as I’m concerned, so here it is from socials:
MATERIALIZER
By the time it’s ingested, all has changed.
Know that’s nothing that you can change.
It’ll never be the same.
New chapter
Show announcements and music coming soon
Thanks for sticking around 🖤
Let’s ride
https://theswellfellas.bandcamp.com/
http://instagram.com/theswellfellas
http://facebook.com/theswellfellas
