Sweep the Desert

Sweep the Desert Artist: Swell Maps
Label: Alive Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 095081004122
EAN: 0095081004122
ASIN: B000056V8W


Release Date: 2001-02-13

Sweep the Desert


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Tracks:

  1. Then Poland
  2. Full Moon In My Pocket
  3. Blam!!
  4. Full Moon (Reprise)
  5. Big Maz In The Desert
  6. Big Empty Field (No. 2)
  7. Don't Throw Ashtrays At Me
  8. Midget Submarines
  9. Bridge Head (Pt. 9)
  10. Never To See Any Other Way
  11. Doomette
  12. Collison With A Frogman Vs. The Mangrove Delta Plan
  13. Fashion Cult
  14. Big Maz In The Country
  15. Cave Mines
  16. Avalanche
  17. Big Empty Field
  18. Raining Room
  19. The Graveyard Shift

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Album Description

Sweep the Desert has been compiled by band members Nikki Sudden, Richard Earl & Jowe Head, & focuses on the more experimental side of the Swell Maps. Alive Records.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Really good - interesting, certainly, but..........2003-12-24

Frankly, I object to the way that this album and "International Recue" were compiled. Each one manages to give, on it's own, a frustratingly inaccurate portrayal of what Swell Maps are really about (IMO, a real Swell Maps album somehow resembles closely Pavement's "Wowee Zowee," and the Stocktonites were certainly influenced by SMs). This album leans heavily on the Krautrock-ian, experimental side, while IR presents them as a bordering-on-conventianal, if very good, punk band (i.e. "Read About Seymore," "Let's Build a Car"). The ideal would be to mix and match these two collections on your own mix-tape; so, buy 'em both, and do just that!

4 out of 5 stars

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