Son Of Mustang Ford [1990]
So I was still in high school when the first couple of Swervedriver EPs came out. These were Rage classics that we taped on VHS months before we could ever get our hands on the records. I mean we lived in the bush mate! This tune to me and my mates was just a grungier, more testosterone fuelled version of You Mad Me Realise. Which didn't make it any less great. I mean it rocked like a high octane drag racing mutha fucka didn't it.
Rave Down [1990]
Then five or six months later came the Rave Down film clip and EP.
Creation Records were on a fucking role with Loaded, Come Together, Glider, Ride, Play, Fall, Nowhere, Slowdive and these first two Swervedriver EPs.
Rave Down's a glorious fuzzed up heavy psych noise rock tune of the highest order. All sorts of swirling waves of sound, layers of textured noise, driving riff-a-rama, wild drumming and hooks galore.
Bouncy, blistering, blissed out, the best!
Peak 90s rock.
Zedhead [1990]
Another stellar rocket fuelled noise rock work out.
Sandblasted [1991]
Just over six months later came the third ep. Epic noisey psychedelia with dream-gaze passages and gorgeous hooks. They really packed it all in here!
*I still kinda don't get why they weren't the premier noisey shoegaze band after My Bloody Valentine because at this stage they were very fucking killing it and had the highest strike rate of all the gazers of shoe. I saw both Ride and MBV live in Melbourne in '91 but Swervedriver didn't even tour down here until much later in like 94 or 95 when I finally got to see them at the Corner Hotel in Richmond.
