Maxs

at Islington Mill

Lightning Bolt
Tweak Bird
Pocketknife

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2/11/09 Islington Mill.

got me interested in a band that I don't know much about. Seeing them n Manchester in December.

They play Manchester 3 June 2009. Looking forward to it. I'd give the album 8/10 but then I already liked the band so I'm possibly a bit biased. Anyway worth a few quid of amy one's money to see them play live.

Just re-sorting my CD collection - well what else would you do on a sunny Bank Holiday - and I have just played this CD which has been a favourite of mine for 4 years. I know the band broke up a few years ago despite the immense potential dispayed on this CD and in their live performances. They were held in very high regard by the people who listened to them. They reminded me in one sense of Oceansize though not as heavy and not as panoramic with the soundscapes. A band I would trully love to see again.

Would loved to have been there.

Yes I know what you mean about the word dark and Laymar's reviews. It does seem like laziness but it so apt.
I can find about 7 or 8 reviews now and I think 'dark' is used in everyone - perhaps they should have called themselves The Darkness:-)
I've just re-read the Organ Magazine review - they were quite ecstatic about Laymar. When they played Swords on their radio program they said it was the best thing they had heard in ages. Of course I agree.

to the issue of the review. There's an awful lot about them that's just completely different to many bands. I've seen them a few times and only chatted briefly so i don't know how/why they picked their name but hey, I got past that a long time ago and if you're into postrock as I'm sure you will like them. Just looked around for some other reviews and Organ Magazine (which I really don't know much about) have the release as "Album of the Week".

any lingering confusion disappears.

Like a lot of reviewers are saying the album needs to be heard as a whole. Swords at 19 minutes long concludes the album and it's an astonishing peice of work.