Genre-hopping Minnesota-based pop auteur Richard Swift's The Atlantic Ocean is more of an "official" follow-up to 2007's Dressed Up for the Letdown than the double shot of Music from the Films of R/Swift (under the pseudonym Instruments of Science and Technology) and the cathartic but nearly unlistenable Richard Swift as Onasis. Where the latter two releases felt like "Hail Marys" tossed into the musical ether, Ocean serves as a return to the kind of sharp-tongued, Beatlesque retr   [ read more ]

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Celebrated for his lo-fi, experimental melanges saluting genres from doo-wop to lush American pop, Swift adds jaunty synthesizers and Motown soul to make this, his fourth release, his most danceable record to date. Recommended if you like Wilco, M. Ward, My Morning Jacket, Ryan Adams.

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Celebrated for his lo-fi, experimental melanges saluting genres from doo-wop to lush American pop, Swift adds jaunty synthesizers and Motown soul to make this, his fourth release, his most danceable record to date. Recommended if you like Wilco, M. Ward, My Morning Jacket, Ryan Adams.

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VINYL FORMAT. Insound Staff Pick - 2009! Celebrated for his lo-fi, experimental melanges saluting genres from doo-wop to lush American pop, Swift adds jaunty synthesizers and Motown soul to make this, his fourth release, his most danceable record to date. Recommended if you like Wilco, M. Ward, My Morning Jacket, Ryan Adams.

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Ground Trouble Jaw released on Secretly Canadian, is a new digital ep from Richard Swift. The EP is sure to please fans of classic Swift, as the five tracks run the gamut from 60s girl group pop to Motown soul to Onasis-flavored 50s street gang doo-wop to synth-fueled pop classics (think Prince sitting in on the 'Plastic Ono' sessions) - all with Swift's emerging trademark vocals which bring his songs to life like few other singers do today.

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The Novelist - Swift's highly acclaimed, succinct, eight song, nineteen minute and thirty-eight second-long, audiophile archivist experiment - immediately ushers the listener deep into the recesses of Swift's creative core for a kaleidoscopic trip aboard an intergalactic vaudevillian steamship with a speakeasy code-word. Yet, The Novelist is only one small manifestation of Swift's entire musical manifesto and only one-half of this double-disc set. Walking Without Effort - t   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Insound Staff Pick - 2009! The double-EP Richard Swift as Onasis is as creatively fortifying as it is unhinged and unpolished, a primal slab thrown into the fire for dancing and merriment during the chilly months while we await Richard Swift's second full-length. Once upon a time, the idea of a record was to capture a performance, to grab those undulating wavelengths from the air and stick them to this thing that went round and round, so later on that performance could be heard    [ read more ]

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The double-EP Richard Swift as Onasis is as creatively fortifying as it is unhinged and unpolished, a primal slab thrown into the fire for dancing and merriment during the chilly months while we await Richard Swift's second full-length. Once upon a time, the idea of a record was to capture a performance, to grab those undulating wavelengths from the air and stick them to this thing that went round and round, so later on that performance could be heard and felt and experienced again. So it's no surpri   [ read more ]

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The double-EP Richard Swift as Onasis is as creatively fortifying as it is unhinged and unpolished, a primal slab thrown into the fire for dancing and merriment during the chilly months while we await Richard Swift's second full-length. Once upon a time, the idea of a record was to capture a performance, to grab those undulating wavelengths from the air and stick them to this thing that went round and round, so later on that performance could be heard and felt and experienced again. So it's no surpri   [ read more ]

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This is the debut single from Richard Swift's new full-length Dressed Up For the Letdown for which Mojo had the following to say: 'FOUR STARS. It's not stringently retro, more a Tin Pan Alley of the Imagination.' The A-side is pure Swift -- a piano-driven pop tune sung with the moxie of a wizened songsmith. 'So come on, love, nobody wants to see you cry,' he sings. 'All of your heartbreak has been sung.' It's three minutes of wonder that takes you back thirty-five years to a classic era of smart L.A.   [ read more ]

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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of Dressed Up for the Letdown and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. Employing an archaic attitude of tempered restraint on a fresh collection of ten songs, without appearing shamelessly retro or kitschy. Swift leads the faithful further into a melancholic world draped with colorful sonic landscapes. This is his first new material recorded since 2001 and is the follow-up to the re-r   [ read more ]

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Employing an archaic attitude of tempered restraint on a fresh collection of ten songs, without appearing shamelessly retro or kitschy. Swift leads the faithful further into a melancholic world draped with colorful sonic landscapes. This is his first new material recorded since 2001 and is the follow-up to the re-release of his double CD The Novelist / Walking Without Effort in 2005. He's toured with My Morning Jacket, The Walkmen, Elbow, Josh Ritter, Jens Lekman, and Earlimart, earning a reputation    [ read more ]

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