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 ]

LP $11.99

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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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VINYL FORMAT. COMES WITH BONUS CD WITH FOUR DEMO TRACKS!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-LP set.   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. 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   [ 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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