OverDrive: Rival Pack - Gnaw vs. Alpha Simian hyperpop with shout-along choruses and grooves

with shout-along choruses and grooves that do more than just open up the pit

Gira describes the lineup with Kizys / Westberg / Jarboe / Parsons as "one of the best live versions of Swans ever - actually much more intense and visceral in performance than in the nuanced takes of the songs on these recordings

much like both of it's predecessors

Imagery of flight and the denial of gravity floats slyly through the ten songs on Metal Bird by the California-born musician and hints at the experience of being caught in purgatory

Eric Drew Feldman

OverDrive: Rival Pack - Gnaw vs. Alpha Simian hyperpop with shout-along choruses and grooves