HR063 - Swinebolt 45 - Nakedness, Shyness, Guilt, But Like In A Dream — C60 — 1988
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NOTE: Due to a silly Bandcamp quirk the album page says Swinebolt FortyFive. The ‘band’ name is Swinebolt 45. Side A: Sewer Grate Valentine The Boneless The Glutton Eh? What? Fantastic! Eh? What? Divinity In A Car Side B: Night Cafe Pigs Twilight Two Yellow Houses Sewer Plate No Need |
REVIEW by Jerry Kranitz
Swinebolt 45 is the moniker under which Viktimized Karcass guitarist Roger Moneymaker recorded his solo work. This is WAY different from his playing in Viktimized Karcass and a welcome insight into Roger’s creative world.
The 60-minute set includes 11 tracks but in some ways they play as one continuous space journey. We’ve got shimmering space-ambient guitar workouts, with Roger setting moods that evolve from psychedelically haunting to poltergeist spacecraft drone pulsations. ‘Valentine The Boneless’ is a highlight, with its deep space beehive and wigged out radiosonic activity. I like the cold yet intense atmosphere on this track. Much of the music gets downright hair raising, feeling like a cross between hellish lysergic limbo and hurtling through a black hole, but then descending into a densely static and weather-beaten spectral plane. ‘Eh? What? Fantastic! Eh? What?’ (crazy title!!) is another standout that feels like a cross between alien swarm and outerspace drag race, with its intensely whirring drone waves and tension-laden soundscapes. It’s like being stuck in the high-speed rotor of a fan. And ‘Divinity In A Car’ is like being lost in an acid dosed time warp, bouncing off the walls of bending time.
‘Night Café’ kicks off Side B. At first it brings to mind the Residents ‘Eskimo’ album, but with a minimalist, cut-up orchestral twist. But after a while is just melts into ambient psychedelic space and we are seriously trippin’. ‘Pigs’ is deep space tribal, like everyone is partaking of the ayahuasca and gleefully paying the price. ‘Two Yellow Houses’ is another track that grabbed me by the throat, rocketing into ghostly, tab dosed space. I like the cool backwards tape manipulations that inject a freaked out psychedelic edge. Overall, this is a wonderful example of hometaper space exploration, with lots of intriguing effects and manipulated guitar work.
Swinebolt 45 is the moniker under which Viktimized Karcass guitarist Roger Moneymaker recorded his solo work. This is WAY different from his playing in Viktimized Karcass and a welcome insight into Roger’s creative world.
The 60-minute set includes 11 tracks but in some ways they play as one continuous space journey. We’ve got shimmering space-ambient guitar workouts, with Roger setting moods that evolve from psychedelically haunting to poltergeist spacecraft drone pulsations. ‘Valentine The Boneless’ is a highlight, with its deep space beehive and wigged out radiosonic activity. I like the cold yet intense atmosphere on this track. Much of the music gets downright hair raising, feeling like a cross between hellish lysergic limbo and hurtling through a black hole, but then descending into a densely static and weather-beaten spectral plane. ‘Eh? What? Fantastic! Eh? What?’ (crazy title!!) is another standout that feels like a cross between alien swarm and outerspace drag race, with its intensely whirring drone waves and tension-laden soundscapes. It’s like being stuck in the high-speed rotor of a fan. And ‘Divinity In A Car’ is like being lost in an acid dosed time warp, bouncing off the walls of bending time.
‘Night Café’ kicks off Side B. At first it brings to mind the Residents ‘Eskimo’ album, but with a minimalist, cut-up orchestral twist. But after a while is just melts into ambient psychedelic space and we are seriously trippin’. ‘Pigs’ is deep space tribal, like everyone is partaking of the ayahuasca and gleefully paying the price. ‘Two Yellow Houses’ is another track that grabbed me by the throat, rocketing into ghostly, tab dosed space. I like the cool backwards tape manipulations that inject a freaked out psychedelic edge. Overall, this is a wonderful example of hometaper space exploration, with lots of intriguing effects and manipulated guitar work.