Sunday night marks the end of an era. After seven years of aural attacks, Portland, OR noise duo Yellow Swans are calling it a day. Fortunately for us, the guys have to get a few more stops in first; including one, Sunday night at our very own Picador. Plus Pete Swanson and Gabriel Mindel Saloman have one last full-length release slated for next year as well as a smattering of splits and seven inches throughout the rest of ‘08 and into 2009 (dudes are hella prolific). Plus in case you were asleep, Swanson and Mindel Saloman put out critically acclaimed, aptly titled album At All Ends in October of 2007.
Wait, they’re disbanding? Sounds like they’re just opening up the flood gates. Maybe evoking a torrent isn’t the best image. The Swans’ last time through (October ‘07) was more subtle than a flood, to stay with a water metaphor; it’s closer to the shift between holding your breath and drowning. There’s a calm allure to their slow builds, and comfort in their interplay and crescendos, but then suddenly, all you can do is close your eyes and accept what Swanson and Mindel Saloman do to you.
Flanking Yellow Swans tomorrow night are a quartet of Iowa City’s finest noise-makers: the previously freak-focused Wet Hair, knob-twiddler(s) Lwa, one more night people (along with Wet Hair) side project Darren Ho as Driphouse, and possibly the most disturbing band name in Iowa City, Open Goat. Download the track “Our Oases” below and we’ll see you tomorrow night. Doors open at 7pm.
Download: Yellow Swans - Our Oases
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