
Continuing the Contraband series, showcasing various finds and older, often out of print, records that deserve some ink in the blogo lol osphere, today we discuss Swirlies and three albums - Blonder Tongue Audio Baton, What to Do About Them , and They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons very worthy of your attention. Swirlies served as a Yankee response to the Thames Valley-centric shoegazing movement, though it could still be argued that Swirlies didn't necessarily fit nicely in that box either. The group masterfully amalgamated both dream and [...]