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Medium Gnarly

by Swiss Army Wife

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rubydoo
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rubydoo i love how energetic this album is! super fun listen. Favorite track: New Best Friend.
Avery Thomson
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Avery Thomson This is so swag Favorite track: CBS at 7:00.
wesley
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wesley the first great album of 2023 - a perfect mix of math, punk and emo rock stylings. not a second wasted across the runtime. in summary: this shit rips. Favorite track: No More Drugs.
jonser
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jonser this is very very good. even tho it's new it has nostalgia dripping off of it .great record. Favorite track: Aight, I'mma Head Out.
Michael
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Michael 👍 Lively tunes. Bandcamp is the new Geffen. This is another CD I want to actually take the time to listen to because what I heard is really good. These guys are alive! I imagine Finch wants to sound like this. Favorite track: Halloween.
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🇩🇰 In New Music We Trust 🇩🇰 ...

That "Halloween" Song That Are Up Until Now Is a Great Track. I'm Looking Forward To Hear the Rest Of the Album 06-01-2023

Kindly Lars 🇩🇰 Denmark
06-12-2022

... Favorite track: Halloween.
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1.
don’t call me after hours don’t call me loose threads will be devoured space fills up i need time to take long showers with a glass of hey wait someone’s trying to reach you maybe it’s somebody that you once knew don’t seem to recognize the number commitments slowly seem to drag you under so stay behind you’ll be fine just stay inside
2.
FLCL 01:25
late night when you caught me slipping 3:00 A.M. when the T.V started dripping something this way comes, feels wicked feels great when you kiss my forehead this place feels so god damn lived in push me over to spill it’s contents won’t you? beat me to death with a rickenbacker while telling me it’s the tone you’re after drag the tv out on the front lawn and after let’s put something on to forget about what’s going on
3.
Halloween 02:01
halloween 2016 a time of spiritual healing my hands were freezing holding your keychain trying to sustain the feeling of picking out the good stuff like holding hands in your truck and skipping class to think of tattoo ideas and bailing on college romanticize the warm hug of cheap beer and bad drugs two skeletons in love tired of the cold but too scared of leaving ‘tis the season of drunken confession wearing a mask is an honest profession rooftop meetings teenage feelings realizing I can’t tell if you’re still breathing picking out the good stuff like holding hands in your truck and skipping class to think of tattoo ideas and bailing on college romanticize the warm hug of cheap beer and bad drugs two skeletons in love tired of the cold but too scared of leaving
4.
i put the water in your gas can i’m your new best friend late nights after work when you feel strange midnight at the driving range collapse into a rest stop bathroom promises spill through who fucking hurt you? last $20 until payday i’m your slow decay the messages that rot inside your voicemail your apartment’s rusted guardrail feels good with you at the drive thru broken rearview i fucking see you this burning love won’t ever be enough i’ll be there when your body comes undone 16 17 18 19 200 down since this time last week 16 17 18 19 i need you more than I did last week this burning love won’t ever be enough (you and I, could I, you and I could like it) i’ll be there when your body comes undone (you and I, could I, you and I could like it)
5.
no more drugs no more hiding it’s time to fall into the feeling i’ve been fighting throw a rock down a well listen to the hollow sound of an empty vessel strip away everything see if you’re left with anything peel back the fabric and realize maybe I don’t want to see this hat trick new hell old shell
6.
CBS at 7:00 02:44
hey, fall away from me but say you feel it too lay gently next to me and flip on the morning news you’ll see the end, don’t wait you’ll see the end of this (swallow) you’ll see the end, don’t wait you’ll see the end of this
7.
there for me white knuckled on the sink can’t you hold me long enough to get me through tonight say to me what do you think it means when i tell you about that dream where I was dying but I feel fine, i’m in my prime sincerity is meaningless to me honestly? i can’t tell the difference hating things doesn’t come easy with your fingers digging into my shoulder a lasting mark that you can see is all I want lately maybe forever but I feel fine, is that my line? sincerity is meaningless to me honestly? i can’t tell the difference
8.
stand back and watch me self-sabotage politely forgive the pale skinny white kid airing his feelings again doing this for my myself and mental health though I sincerely hope you’re doing well just want everyone here to feel safe here to accept my share of the blame i know when it’s over i’m falling back to the earth with flooded lungs, and a war-weary tongue; i’ll resign my breath to the insect hum swallowed up in the pit so profoundly propped up by the people around me i want that feeling for everybody it’s a basement is not a gated community face in the crowd, no sense of direction fleeting glance, spiritual connection bottle it like a potion, it’s curative now I just need some kind of preservative i know when it’s over i’m falling back to earth with burning lungs, and a war-weary tongue; i’ll resign my breath to the insect hum cold nose numb toes i love you tiny house show

about

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They don’t make ‘em like Swiss Army Wife anymore.

The Portland, Oregon, band’s particular take on emo–heavy on the math riffs, extremely gruff vocally, and fun as hell–might seem quaint in 2022/3, a time when most bands are finding ways to distance themselves as much as possible from the hallmarks of the genre. But the band’s debut full-length, Medium Gnarly, is refreshing in its back to basics approach, charming in a way that recalls the scrappy early work of now-iconic groups like You Blew It! or Free Throw.

Single “Halloween” is a perfect encapsulation of Swiss Army Wife’s ethos, a two-minute rager at a breakneck pace stuffed with noodly riffs and hyper-specific, half-sarcastic lyricism. The record’s heavier moments, like closer “Aight, I’mma Head Out” and the first half of “No More Drugs,” lend the band some punk cred, while “Your Bathroom” and the waltzy coda of “No More Drugs” prove Swiss Army Wife’s just as capable of slowing down the pace and still delivering the goods. It comes together as a twenty-minute sugar rush, a debut album that’ll impress fans of the emo revivalists and more contemporary acts. Medium Gnarly is the sort of record that already feels like a cult classic, the kind that just needs to find its way to the right ears.

credits

released January 6, 2023

Swiss Army Wife is:
Kade (he/they) - Guitar & Vox
Jon (he/him) - Bass & Vox
Ellie (she/they) - Guitar & Vox
Tim (he/him) - Drums

Recorded by:
Mat Larimer ( @matlarimer ) | Mat Larimer Recording
www.matlarimer.com

Mixed by:
Alex Estrada ( @palemoonaudio ) | The Pale Moon Ranch
www.thepalemoonranch.com

Mastered by:
Jack Shirley | The Atomic Garden
www.theatomicgarden.com

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Swiss Army Wife Portland, Oregon

Bunch of tall sad people making music out of Portland, Oregon.

✨Twinkly punk✨

Dog Bless.

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