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04.28.08 T. COLE RACHEL'S RECORD OF THE WEEK
Swervedriver's Never Lose That Feeling EP is worth shoplifting for its rockin' shoegazer sounds

 

I’m a little bummed out that I didn’t go to the Coachella festival this year, especially when my friends continuously flooded me with text messages like "OMG PRINCE IS AMAZINGGGGG" and "OMG PINK FLOYD! INFLATABLE PIG FLYING OVER THE DESERTSSSS." Still the toughest message had to be from a friend who texted to let me know that the new reunited Swervedriver (one of my all-time fave bands from the early '90s) was playing an amazing set to a half-empty tent on Sunday afternoon. Luckily, I can relive my college glory days when Swervedriver play NYC in a few weeks, but the cruel text still prompted me to go dust off all my old shoegazer records, including Swervedriver’s Never Lose That Feeling EP, which I vaguely remember shoplifting (yeah, I said it, shoplifted!) from a record store in Oklahoma City during my senior year of high school. (To my credit, the record had been erroneously placed in a bargain bin and was priced for only $5, which would have equaled two meals for me back in college.) This band was always a little more straightforwardly rockin' than most of the bands they got lumped in with (My Bloody Valentine, etc.), but they wielded the mighty wall of guitar sound with the best of them. Despite the fact that Swervedriver had not one but two members sporting questionable dreadlocks, I still obsessively bought all of their records until they eventually broke up. Hearing this now takes me back to a time in my life when buying records (or stealing them) was still this exciting opportunity for discovery, and I played this record on my best friend’s stereo while we all sat around doing bong hits and feeling utterly cool and just so happy to be hanging out together and no longer living with our stupid, clueless parents. It’s a feeling I hoped I would never lose, even though I eventually did.

The band playing “Duel” live on some TV show back in 1993 (aka
“the year that T. Cole Rachel graduated from high school!”)

Download: Swervedriver's "Never Lose That Feeling" MP3


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