Deterioration

about this album

Ok, so this is another Yellow Swans BASEMENT TAPE sort of thing, along the lines of Drowner. We had a practice space below the Rotture club in Portland, we'd practice a few days a week when we weren't touring or working on an album. This was all recorded after At All Ends and before Going Places/Being There/Drowner. We were gearing up to go on a trip to do the Free Noise tour in the UK and a few other, normal duo gigs around the EU, we wanted to do something for the trip that was like NEW STUFF and ONLY FOR THE TOUR. so we cobbled this together, which was basically just like.. a best of recent jams and filled out with some detritus. I'd do things like transfer my reel to reel tapes after a sesh and we'd jam over it a bit and some of that is on here, like it is on Drowner. just messy studio noodling that was worthwhile. We had like 50 blank c60s, asked Shawn Reed to do a quick cover and bam there it is. The thing is with this thing is that it captured a great moment for us, where we were stretching our sounds and improvisations towards something new and ended up producing a record that's maybe us at our most krautrock sounding, but also just beyond blasted. the tape is in the red saturated and you can hear the sweat in the room. This one feels HOT. Gabe and I both love this one, and so did our pal Tom Loftus, who wanted to put out the tape on a CD. EASY. Reedie colored the sketch in, copies were manufactured and the band imploded shortly thereafter. As it should be. Anyway.

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more from Yellow Swans

Going Places

At All Ends

Psychic Secession

Bring the Neon War Home

Drift

Mort Aux Vaches