Matt's picks Live At The Rum Puncheon Swansea Sound SKU: SKEPWAX005LP Barcode: 5055869548144 20.00 £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Skep Wax Records Released Date: 19th November 2021 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Video Description Product Info Swansea Sound started in the middle of lockdown. They realised that fast, loud, joyous, angry indiepop punk was the answer to being stuck indoors. Who needs introspection? Hue Williams is reunited with Pooh Sticks partner Amelia Fletcher (ex- Talulah Gosh, Heavenly). Rob Pursey (also ex-Heavenly) and Ian Button (Wreckless Eric’s live collaborator) provide the noise. Swansea Sound are the fast, acerbic and joyous past, present and future of indie. Four of the tracks were released as singles, all of them now impossible to obtain. ‘Corporate Indie Band’ was a limited edition cassette, ‘I Sold My Soul on eBay’ was a one-off lathe cut that got auctioned on eBay (with a £400 winning bid), ‘Indies of the World’ was a 7” inch single that briefly hit the UK physical charts, but immediately sold out and plummeted back out again. And then there was ‘Swansea Sound’: a requiem for a lost radio station; an anti-corporate lament – another limited edition cassette single. First track Rock N Roll Void gives a three minute revision session, just in case you’ve forgotten about The Ramones, The Kinks, The Buzzcocks and the brief explosion of indie noise pollution of 1986. Some of the songs are reflexive – ‘Swansea Sound’ and ‘The Pooh Sticks’. (Who else was going to write a tribute to The Pooh Sticks?) Others are searching for hope in the digital desert – ‘Let It Happen’, ‘I’m OK When You’re Around’, ‘Pasadena’, ‘Angry Girl’. ‘Je Ne Sais Quoi’ is pure pop throwaway fun. The others songs are dead catchy too, they just happen to express a sickness and a contempt for the state of things. ‘Corporate Indie Band’ is about a group who have mortgaged their creativity to a major label and sold their identities to an online marketing team of public schoolboys. Freedom of Speech takes a look at three contemporary ‘alternative’ music stars and considers how they’ve responded to BLM, the pandemic and the rise of right-wing populism. ‘Like self-serving arseholes’, is the unfortunate answer. (You won’t struggle to work out who the three ‘alternative’ stars are.) Swansea Sound took their name from a well-loved local radio station when it was given a corporate makeover in 2020. They even used the radio station’s abandoned logo. Like the indiepunk pop songs, something modern acidic and angry has taken up residence in a familiar, borrowed frame. You can throw yourself around to Swansea Sound like it’s 1986, but if you catch the lyrics you’ll remember you’re in 2021. (Sorry about that.) The Rum Puncheon, a notorious pub in Swansea, closed down decades ago. Artist Swansea Sound Genre Rock And Pop Label Skep Wax Records Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings A1 Rock N Roll Void A2 I Sold My Soul On Ebay A3 I'm Ok When You're Around A4 The Pooh Sticks A5 Let It Happen A6 Je Ne Sais Quoi B1 Pasadena B2 Indies Of The World B3 Corporate Indie Band B4 Freedom Of Speech B5 Angry Girl B6 Swansea Sound Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Swansea Sound and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Swansea Sound Twentieth Century Rock And Pop | Skep Wax Records | 1LP Released 8th September 2023 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Swansea Sound Twentieth Century £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Skep Wax Records SKU: SKEPWAX016LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 8th September 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Swansea Sound Merry Christmas To Me/Merry Christmas Darlings Rock And Pop | Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club | 7", Single Released 10th December 2021 £10.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Swansea Sound Merry Christmas To Me/Merry Christmas Darlings £10.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club SKU: SNOWFLAKE29 Formats: 7", Single Released Date: 10th December 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View John Congleton And The Nighty Nite Until The Horror Goes Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Fat Possum | 1LP Released 28th January 2021 £8.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations John Congleton And The Nighty Nite Until The Horror Goes £8.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Fat Possum SKU: nn217825 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th January 2021 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Idina Menzel Drama Queen Rock And Pop | BMG Rights Management | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 27th October 2023 £20.00 Select options Idina Menzel Drama Queen £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG Rights Management Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 27th October 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View You Tell Me You Tell Me Rock And Pop | Memphis Industries | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 11th January 2019 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders You Tell Me You Tell Me £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Memphis Industries SKU: MI0517LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 11th January 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Steven A Clark Where Neon Goes To Die – Indies Only Rock And Pop | Secretly Canadian | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 7th September 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Steven A Clark Where Neon Goes To Die – Indies Only £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Secretly Canadian SKU: SC361LP-C1 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 7th September 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Weezer Make Believe Rock And Pop | UMC | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 24th October 2016 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Weezer Make Believe £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: UMC4544 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 24th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Turtles, The Happy Together Rock And Pop | Manifesto | 2LP Released 7th August 2020 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Turtles, The Happy Together £34.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Manifesto SKU: MFO480431 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 7th August 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Polly Scattergood In This Moment Rock And Pop | Future Paradise | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 3rd July 2020 £20.00 - £22.00 Select options Polly Scattergood In This Moment £20.00 - £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Future Paradise Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 3rd July 2020 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Arcs, The Yours, Dreamily Rock And Pop | Nonesuch | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 1st September 2015 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Arcs, The Yours, Dreamily £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Nonesuch SKU: 0075597950014 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 1st September 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gorgon City Escape Rock And Pop | Virgin Records | 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 10th August 2018 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gorgon City Escape £24.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Virgin Records SKU: V3220 Formats: 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 10th August 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jools Holland Pianola. 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