Swet Deth, By: Crooked Fingers - Model Number: MRG878CD

Description 

 

One afternoon, Eric Bachmann™s son returned from school with a sheath of pictures he™d drawn, all of them macabre. œThere were crows and sinister figures with scythes and tombstones, he recalls. On one, he had written
˜DETH, SWET DETH,™ and everything clicked in my head. Swet Deth, Bachmann™s first album under his Crooked Fingers moniker after a 15-year hiatus, organized itself around the image: its songs are about death, yes, but there™s a sweetness to them, a wry sensibility to his lyrics that comes from having experienced many kinds of death and the life that follows in its wake.
œCrooked Fingers is a historically slippery concept ” no two albums sound alike or feature the same lineup in studio or on tour. Hearing parts in these songs that called for instruments he didn™t play or vocals that weren™t
in his register, he found himself expanding the roster of guest musicians further than he had on any album in his catalog, including Sharon Van Etten (œHaunted), The National™s Matt Berninger (œFrom All Ways), and
Superchunk™s Mac McCaughan (œCold Waves). But first he started with family, friends, and frequent collaborators. Jon Rauhouse plays pedal steel.
Bachmann™s wife, Liz Durrett, contributes vocals, as do members of his touring band, Skylar Gudasz and Avery Leigh Draut (of Night Palace).
There is a freedom to this collection of songs, a groove to them that would belie their agonies and anxieties were mere death the album™s point and not what comes before. For Eric Bachmann, that has been growth, as a musician
and as a man. Like the tree sprouting from the graveyard on its cover, Swet Deth is surprising and lush, a shock of color against its morbid landscape, proof of life in the shadow of its opposite. œRIP Eric Bachmann, one tombstone reads. As Crooked Fingers, he™s never felt more alive

Tracks

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Cold Waves
From All Ways
Spray Tan Speed Queen (In a German Car)
Insomnia
Empty Love and Cheap Thrills
Haunted
Hospital
(Im Your) Bodhisattva
Lena
Steady Now

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