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Release Date: 15 November 2024
Label: Whited Sepulchre Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 860011643920
Genres: Indie
Description
Sympathy Pain is an unusual animal, as their collective backgrounds come from hardcore, drone, and experimental pop in Salt Lake City, Utah - Sympathy Pain began as Skyler Hitchcox's gloomy drone project which was later joined by Casey Hansen (of Cult Leader) to explore and expand the sullen space that the project initially carved out. Sympathy Pain is rounded out by Chaz Prymek (Lake Mary) and Nora Price. The deep connections to Salt Lake City's underground well of experimental music have deep entanglements. Sympathy Pain has emerged from those entanglements with a clear eyed thesis, transmuting the often oppressive cultural climate of Utah through a personal veil of heavy sorrow.
Swan Dive is the product of years of excavating that space into a cavern, yielding their self-described "emo)))" (a nod to the preeminent doom/drone band Sunn) while still holding onto the submerged soundscapes that began as the core of the project. The album is expansive -- a winding ride that travels from minimalism, to claustrophobic ambient, to triumphant passages that all underscore its forlorn undercurrent.
Originally released in January of 2024 as a CD by The Ghost is Clear and cassette by Diabolical Records, Swan Dive finally finds a new life on vinyl - reissued by the Cincinnati, OH record label Whited Sepulchre Records.
Tracked with Wes Johnson at Archive Recordings in SLC, UT and mixed/mastered by longtime friend and co-conspirator Ben Young, the album features a haunting guest spot by Madeline Johnston of Midwife on "Heaven + Hell" to close out the album.
Tracklisting
Sympathy Pain
Desert Liminal
Desert Liminal
Max Jaffe
Chelsea Bridge
Joy Guidry
Tent Music
Zvrra
Dr Robert & Matt Deighton
Springhouse
Hachiku
Office Dog
The Sherlocks
Sympathy Pain
Pile
Fruit Bats
