SEX SWING SHARE NEW TRACK, ‘BOTEN, ROUTE 13’
TAKEN FROM THEIR FORTHCOMING ALBUM
GOLDEN TRIANGLE - OUT 4 OCT 2024 ON GOD UNKNOWN RECORDS
UK TOUR DATES INCLUDE WALTHAMSTOW TRADES HALL FOR THE GOD UNKNOWN 10th ANNIVERSARY SHOW – SAT 5 OCT
SEX SWING have shared the latest taste of what to expect from their third studio album, Golden Triangle, set for release on 4 October 2024 via God Unknown Records. The collective of revered UK underground musicians (comprising members of Earth, Mugstar, The Keep and Jaaw) have also detailed new UK tour dates that start on 5 October with a performance at the God Unknown 10th Anniversary show in London.
Sex Swing frontman Dan Chandler explains that ‘Boten, Route 13’ “...is about illegal logging. Boten, Route 13 is a road near the Laos Chinese border, a route the smugglers take.”
The locals call the Golden Triangle area Sop Ruak – eighty thousand square miles of mountains and mystery and unholy medicine. “It really is an endless seam of activity,” Chandler explains of the region between Myanmar, Thailand and Laos that inspired the title of their new album. To know this contradictory corner of the world is to understand fully why the cult-beloved noise-rock artisans turned to it when writing their hotly-anticipated third full-length. The real-life Golden Triangle is a groundswell of both natural wonder and drug production, and who combines beauty and narcotic brutality better than Sex Swing?
For a decade now, Sex Swing have been pulling audiences into drug-like slipstreams with their alchemy of pummeling rhythms, towering guitars, and unrelenting saxophone through which glimmers of light occasionally pierce through. No wonder their Golden Triangle is an album telling distortion-shrouded tales from one of the most storied, enigmatic places on the planet, with enough invention within to fill eighty thousand miles and more.
The album sees the band – completed by bassist Jason Stoll, drummer Stuart Bell, guitarist Jodie Cox, synthesist/guitarist Oli Knowles and saxophonist Colin Webster – on a violent, hypnotic aural travelogue through the region, underlining the evolution Sex Swing have undertaken since forming in 2014. From the raw and primitive sounds of the self-titled debut full-length, followed up by the coruscating Type II in 2020. Sex Swing’s third effort retains those early primitive elements and adds layers of structure and complexity.
Golden Triangle’s initial formation was that of programmed beats and bedroom recordings shared electronically in the height of the pandemic. Those ideas were then completed during intensive writing sessions at a secluded farm in Oxfordshire before the album was recorded by Stanley Gravett at Holy Mountain Studios in Hackney, The album was mixed by Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse, mastered by James Plotkin, the band continued their collaboration with artist Alex Bunn, who has created the cover. Golden Triangle bristles with a rawness familiar to fans of the British sonic punishers, but adds new elements indicative of a group never resting on their laurels or sitting in one place. Why would they, after all? There’s an entire world of mountains and mystery and unholy medicine out there to be explored. The Golden Triangle, it seems, is just the beginning.
The band will perform on Saturday 5 October at a very special show celebrating 10 years of the label on a lineup that includes Duke Garwood, Rainbow Grave, Sneers, Cassels and more – all taking place at Walthamstow Trades Hall - before embarking on further UK dates in December.
Golden Triangle is released on 4 October 2024 via God Unknown Records
Pre-order the album HERE
Golden Triangle tracklisting
The Confluence of the Ruak and Mekong Rivers
Pat Jasan
Myawaddy
Hpakant
Special Economic Zone
Wild Peacock
Sex Swing live
5 Oct – London, Walthamstow Trades Hall (God Unknown Records 10th Anniversary)
13 Dec – Tunbridge Wells, The Sussex Arms
14 Dec – Leeds, Headrow House
15 Dec – Bristol, The Louisana
Sex Swing discography
Sex Swing – self titled (2016, The Quietus Phonographic Corporation)
Type II (2020, Rocket Recordings)
Passovers (2020, Rocket Recordings) – remix album
Grade A Peanut Sauce (2023, Sonic Whip Records) – live album
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