Golden Triangle Sex Swing SKU: 20.00 21.00 £20.00 - £21.00 £20.00 - £21.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: God Unknown Records Released Date: 4th October 2024 Buying Format: 1LP 1LP Coloured Vinyl Buying Options Choose an option1LP1LP Coloured VinylClear Golden Triangle quantity Add to basket ReservePre Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info ‘What makes Sex Swing so powerful is that they transcend the limitations of rock music. Their sound is so full of possibilities, violence, sexuality, sacrifice, even religion. If there was a future to look forward to for heavy guitar music, this is it’ The Quietus The locals call it Sop Ruak – eighty thousand square miles of mountains and mystery and unholy medicine. “It really is an endless seam of activity,” Sex Swing frontman Dan Chandler explains of Golden Triangle – both the title of their new album and the region between Myanmar, Thailand and Laos that inspired it. To know this contradictory corner of the world is to understand fully why the cult-beloved noise-rock artisans turned to it when writing their hotly-anticipated third full-length. The real-life Golden Triangle is a groundswell of both natural wonder and drug production, and who combines beauty and narcotic brutality better than Sex Swing? For a decade now, this collective of revered UK underground musicians, comprising members of Earth, Mugstar, The Keep and Jaaw, have been pulling audiences into drug- like slipstreams with their alchemy of pummelling rhythms, towering guitars, and unrelenting saxophone through which glimmers of light occasionally pierce through. No wonder their Golden Triangle is an album telling distortion-shrouded tales from one of the most storied, enigmatic places on the planet, with enough invention within to fill eighty thousand miles and more. Where does this violent, hypnotic aural travelogue take you within the Sop Ruak? The eight tracks that make up The Golden Triangle see the band – completed by bassist Jason Stoll, drummer Stuart Bell, guitarist Jodie Cox, synthesist/guitarist Oli Knowles and saxophonist Colin Webster – adventure first to ‘The Confluence of the Ruak and Mekong Rivers,’ full of shimmering orchestration and feather-light ambience. Then come stops in ‘Myawaddy’, named after a small town embroiled in bloodshed on the border of Myanmar and Thailand, and ‘Boten, Route 13’ – sparked by stories of a seemingly endless stretch of road from Laos into China. Before long, listeners are plunged into ‘Hpakant’, one of the album’s most invigorating and singular moments, lyrically inspired by a jade mine in Myanmar, where the spoils of forced labour are exchanged for prostitution and methanphetamine. The result is a mesmerising slow-burn of sax, snaking rhythms and sinister spoken word courtesy of the Scottish-born Bruce McClure, who “took the theme and turned it into a sci-fi story of exploitation and vice,” explains the frontman. It’s a track that, like the rest of Golden Triangle, underlines the evolution Sex Swing have undertaken since forming in 2014. From the raw and primitive sounds of the self-titled debut full-length, followed up by the coruscatingType II in 2020. Sex Swing’s third effort retains those early primitive elements and adds layers of structure and complexity. Golden Triangle initial formation was that of programmed beats and bedroom recordings shared electronically in the height of the pandemic. Those ideas were then completed during intensive writing sessions at a secluded farm in Oxfordshire. Album credits consist of recording by Stanley Gravett at Holy Mountain Studios in Hackney, mixing by Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse, mastering from James Plotkin, and the continued aesthetic collaboration with artist Alex Bunn. Golden Triangle bristles with a rawness familiar to fans of the British sonic punishers, but adds new elements indicative of a group never resting on their laurels or sitting in one place. Why would they, after all? There’s an entire world of mountains and mystery and unholy medicine out there to be explored. The Golden Triangle, it seems, is just the beginning. Artist Sex Swing Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label God Unknown Records Buying Options 1LP , 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings The Confluence of the Ruak and Mekong Rivers Kings Romans Casino Pat Jasan Myawaddy Hpakant Boten, Route Special Economic Zone Wild Peacock Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Sex Swing and more from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Sex Swing Type II Rock And Pop | Rocket Recordings | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 15th May 2020 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sex Swing Type II £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rocket Recordings SKU: LAUNCH187LPS Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 15th May 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sex Swing Sex Swing Rock And Pop | The Quietus Phonographic Corporation | 1LP Released 25th November 2016 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sex Swing Sex Swing £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: The Quietus Phonographic Corporation SKU: GID007LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th November 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sundials Kick Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Topshelf | 10", EP/Mini Album Released 4th November 2014 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sundials Kick £14.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Topshelf SKU: TSR1120PMI Formats: 10", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 4th November 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Paul's picks View Product Quick View Dinosaur Jr Sweep It Into Space Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Jagjaguwar | 1LP Released 23rd April 2021 £19.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Dinosaur Jr Sweep It Into Space £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Jagjaguwar Released Date: 23rd April 2021 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Durry Suburban Legend Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Thirty Tigers | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 8th September 2023 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Durry Suburban Legend £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Thirty Tigers SKU: 59623LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 8th September 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jarrow Expensive Hugs Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Barely Dressed Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 27th April 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jarrow Expensive Hugs £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Barely Dressed Records SKU: LPBARELY014 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 27th April 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Oceanator Things I Never Said Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Big Scary Monsters | 1LP Released 9th October 2020 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Oceanator Things I Never Said £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Big Scary Monsters SKU: BSM286V Formats: 1LP Released Date: 9th October 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Avail One Wrench Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Fat Wreck | 1LP Released 11th August 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Avail One Wrench £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Fat Wreck SKU: FAT597 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th August 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Pursuit Of Happiness, The One Sided Story Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Chrysalis | 1LP Released 16th July 2024 £10.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Pursuit Of Happiness, The One Sided Story £10.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Chrysalis SKU: nn290547 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th July 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Against Me! 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