It Chars Our Lips Yet Still We Drink
(Wholly Other) Used LP (one-sided) $6.00
“Electric guitar trance-fest of long-held notes and subtle scrumbles into the dark bush” from 2007 by Tom Carter and Pete Swanson. Clear vinyl with no jacket. Edition of 308 with silkscreen painting by Liz Harris on one side.
Smokescreen
(Three Lobed) Used LP $8.00
“Beautiful wartime blues from Tom Carter of Charalambides and Pete Swanson of Yellow Swans — two psych rock heavyweights conducting dual burning guitar rituals, and in the process creating a dark and smoky atmosphere. Light into dark seems to be the theme throughout; bright beautiful strings fall apart as black clouds of low-end hum envelope everything, painting a picture of the ethereal.”
Vent
(Mie Music - 013) LP $14.00
Tom Carter (Charalambides) and Pete Swanson (Yellow Swans) amalgamate the former’s self-oscillating, power-starved shredding psychedelia with the latter’s self-proclaimed “Neanderthal attempts at VU-and-Roy-Montgomery-inspired simple melodicism.” In the guitar duo’s unusual haze of oscillator sweeps, dying batteries, ripping solos and clean-ish two-chord backbones, we can hear a unique angle on the possibilities that “psychedelic rock” could aspire toward.