recorded:
swann swann - organs, guitars, vocals, bass, percussion, noise.
joel nye - drums.
lorrie matheson - special sounds.
live:
swann swann, britt proulx, andrew hume, laura leif, jordan tettensor, joel nye
Influences
chandigarh rock garden. existential phenomenology. franz marc. hat little rocky.
Sounds Like
eventually your weird bassist is going to trap himself in the bedroom and emerge anew with six eerie pop songs crafted by someone sailing towards their creative zenith. Wasted double-tracked solos, distorted Nintendo, chamber-folk, and Sartre are brewed together into a frothy mead worthy of the greatest basement-viking. Kanpai! (weirdcanada.com revue july 2009)
existential, hallucinogenic, and unabashedly lo-fi, 'how the beach boys sound to those with no feelings' plays like a 6 song suburban themed auditory hallucination. Vintage analog organs play through cheap digital amp simulators, pretty pop melodies suffocate beneath weighty fractured noise; each song crushed into lifeless dust through neurotic over-analysis. Recorded during breaks from touring as bassist in Calgary post punk band 'Hot Little Rocket', 'how the beach boys sound to those with no feelings' is the experimental contemplation of Calgary musician Matthew Swann. Originally recorded in his Charleswood apartment onto a $350 digital 8 track, Swann added additional drums (Joel Nye) and finalized mixes with longtime friend Lorrie Matheson at Arch Audio Studios. Influenced by everything from the Silver Apples, to Egon Shiele, to a favourite childhood hill, to descriptions of states of consciousness within early Indian Buddhism, to the Kinks, to Black Holes, to Eugene Ionesco, the Chandigarh Rock Garden, and Japanese psychedelia. 'how the beach boys sound to those with no feelings' may not be for everybody – but if you like moody lo-fi, kitchen recordings – it just might be for you!
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