Music News - Swallow the Rat share new single and video 'Chain Mail', and play SXSW in March
19 January 2024 - 0 Comments
2024 is off to a great start for Swallow the Rat.
The band has been confirmed as part of the Aotearoa New Zealand contingent for March's South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. They're making the most of their US visit, having also booked a 17-date tour of the East Coast/Mid West of the US.
Other New Zealand artists selected for SXSW include Ashy, We Were Dangerous,
Earth Tongue, CHAII and Georgia Gets By (Georgia Nott of Broods).
Today Swallow the Rat release a corporeal video for their new single Chain Mail,
made by Tauranga-based multimedia artist Kyle Sattler (who also makes music as We Will Ride Fast).
Chain Mail pokes fun at scripted media announcements from political parties in Aotearoa – or announcements
within announcements, as the case may be. Originally titled Evil Party, the band describe it as having a 1990's Touch and Go Records vibe.
When the song was presented to Sattler, he'd been working on some stop motion animation and said he had an idea for a video involving figurative collage. He was given free reign to create his response to the song, and
used elements of the lyrics as inspiration, particularly the theme of evil.
Listen to Chain Mail on Bandcamp
Chain Mail is the fourth single from Swallow the Rat's highly-acclaimed second album South Locust,
released in September last year via US/UK label Shifting Sounds.
South Locust – it’s an eerie street sign half glimpsed at night somewhere in North Texas, an apocalyptic marker. But it also suggests other images and meanings; what’s a locust down here at the bottom of the world, in Aotearoa?
South Locust is out digitally, and on very limited edition solid white 12" vinyl, via US/UK label Shifting Sounds . If you grab a copy on vinyl, you'll also get unlimited streaming via Bandcamp, plus a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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