A Trip To Marineville
4/22/2005, AMG
Swell Maps' debut album was a scattershot affair, ranging from blistering three-chord punk to free-form noise experiments, that was intriguing, yet frequently incoherent. ~...
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Collision Time Revisited
7/13/2005, AMG
A good intro, this 27-track album collects tracks from the band's four LPs, along with B-sides and unreleased tracks. ~ John Bush, All Music...
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Jane From Occupied Europe
1/1/1979, LAUNCH, Jim Derogatis
The band's second album featured 14 short, strange tunes that sounded a bit like a less imaginative and less catchy...
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Jane From Occupied Europe
1/12/2005, AMG
On their second album, Swell Maps displayed even more ambition and confidence than on their debut, which was a plus. Even though their music was still somewhat fragmented,...
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Train Out Of It
7/13/2005, AMG
Compiling a number of outtakes and singles, Train Out of It features more quality material than their similar rarities collection, Whatever Happens Next. ~ Stephen Thomas...
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Whatever Happens Next...
7/13/2005, AMG
Featuring two albums of home-made demos, some of them dating back to the early '70s, Whatever Happens Next contains a fair number of fine songs, but the overall quality of...
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International Rescue
7/13/2005, AMG
You'll have to be a pretty major Swell Maps fan to make heads or tails, at a glance, out of which songs on this 19-track compilation you may already have. It's all over the...
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Sweep The Desert
7/13/2005, AMG
One scans the eight-page booklet accompanying this release in vain for some clue as to when and for what purpose this material was recorded, and whether it's ever been...
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