SEX SWING
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR THEIR NEW TRACK, ‘PAT JASAN’
FEAT. THE MEYER DANCERS
A TASTE OF WHAT TO EXPECT FROM GOLDEN TRIANGLE
OUT 4 OCT (GOD UNKNOWN RECORDS)
AUTUMN TOURING INC. WALTHAMSTOW TRADES HALL FOR THE GOD UNKNOWN 10th ANNIVERSARY SHOW & LE GUESS WHO? FESTIVAL
“A mix of screeching noise and driving Krautrock, with the baritone saxophone as glue between the separate components, giving the whole a bewitching and intoxicating depth” – Gonzo (Circus)
SEX SWING have shared a new video for ‘Pat Jasan’, the latest cut to be released from their third studio album, Golden Triangle, out on 4 October 2024 via God Unknown Records.
‘Pat Jasan’ is accompanied by a brilliantly choreographed video starring The Meyer Dancers, a London based dance group specialising in go-go and psychedelic dancing. The Meyer Dancers take their inspiration from the original ‘60s go-go dancers, and their name from Russ Meyer (director of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), while the track itself is named after a controversial community-led anti-drug movement in northern Myanmar, whose methods have included armed vigilante drug raids, forced rehabilitation, hard labour and religious indoctrination.
Watch the video for ‘Pat Jasan’ HERE
Sex Swing’s autumn dates kick off on Saturday 5 October at a very special show celebrating 10 years of God Unknown (on a lineup that includes Duke Garwood, Rainbow Grave, Sneers, Cassels and more) and their appearance at Le Guess Who? Festival in Utrecht has just been confirmed for 9 November – full dates below.
The locals call the Golden Triangle, 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, this collective of revered UK underground musicians, comprising members of Earth, Mugstar, The Keep and Jaaw, 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.
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
Myawaddy
Hpakant
Special Economic Zone
Wild Peacock
Sex Swing live
5 Oct – London, Walthamstow Trades Hall (God Unknown Records 10th Anniversary)
9 Nov – Utrecht, Le Guess Who? Festival
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
Recent praise for Sex Swing
“Sex Swing are back and more massive than ever.” - The Quietus
“…has a Biblical intensity to it, utterly coruscating and wildly unsettling.” – Clash
“Now is the time for artists to voice the disillusionment, desolation and depression of not just a generation, but an entire society… We need bands like Sex Swing right now…” - Echoes and Dust
“Order and chaos rule Type II… It takes remarkable tact to have such opposing forces play together so amicably.” - Loud & Quiet
Pat Jason video credits:
Choreography: Laura Cherry
Director of Photography: Mik Bakalarz
Choreography: Laura Cherry
Director of Photography: Mik Bakalarz
Directed by Kamil Dymek
The Meyer Dancers: Laura Cherry, Athena Beauvoir, and Holly Amber
The Meyer Dancers: Laura Cherry, Athena Beauvoir, and Holly Amber
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