Weirds Debut Album: Swarmculture
- Grace Patey
- Jun 12, 2017
- 2 min read
The long awaited debut album 'Swarmculture' from Weirds is finally here. We quickly fell in love with them after they went on tour with The Wytches and they've done nothing but cater to our every need ever since. Gritty and heavy, the 10 track album kicks off with Things That Crawl which takes us on a psychedelic ride through some disturbing guitar sounds and heavily distorted vocals. I was apprehensive that this album wasn't going to be heavy enough but that was uncalled for. This is bona fide 90s grunge that hits you in the gut at the start of the album throughout tracks like Old World Blues and Valley of Vision and oozes out into the slower and sexier sounds as it progresses. Black Desert brought the tempo right down and the seduction right up, and Phantom is unapologetically girthy with riffs that rip right through you. Weird Sun is the most experimental of the tracks with over six minutes of elaborate layering and obscure, well, just about everything. I think longer tracks like this are integral to the beginning of a band's career as it helps convey what their thinking is, so even if they've miscommunicated elsewhere, it gives them some context to fall back on. Overall, the ratio of old and new songs is perfect as there is nothing worse than a band you've followed for a while releasing a debut album with only three songs you haven't heard before (*cough* Sundara Karma *cough*). The whole album is cohesive, powerful and shows a clear path of the direction they're going in. There's an essence of King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, but they're by no means stealing their thunder, this is fresh and exciting, we can assume there'll be a few surprises along Weirds' journey.
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