RICHARD SWIFT - THE HEX (LP) KRAUTROCK “Some of these albums haven’t

“Some of these albums haven’t been available on vinyl or CD in years

At the Disco

mainly in the saxophone and guitar solos and the overall use of reverb

did exactly what a sophomore LP is supposed to do: It expanded the ideas put forth in the first album

played a Tiny Desk concert for NPR

RICHARD SWIFT - THE HEX (LP) KRAUTROCK “Some of these albums haven’tBLACK VINYL LP. This simple, rather bubbly lyric seems to be the antithesis of a record unequivocally steeped in a milieu of devastating loss, grief, crippling depression, anxiety and alcoholism. But after probably too many late night deep dives into Richard Swift's posthumous masterpiece, The Hex, these are the very words that carousel round and round your skull. The lyric comes tucked at the tail end of the ironically jaunty and buoyant "Dirty Jim,"