New Music Friday: Swervedriver, TOY, Dave Keuning


Future Ruins




Albums from Swervedriver, TOY and Dave Keuning have all been released today on New Music Friday – check them out right here on Live4ever via Spotify.

“Never having been completely smothered by shoegaze’s heady-sounding miasma,” Live4ever’s review of Future Ruins opens, “Swervedriver have both sought and managed a simple path to revival which owes little to the movement’s re-found popularity.”

“Their bracketing into the scene at the time was more by circumstance (although being from Oxford and producing an initial demo in 1989 didn’t exactly hinder any progress), but their touchstone early albums Raise and Mezcal Head stood apart from the work of many contemporaries, visceral and fried but equally far less introverted.”

“The sort of mainstream and critical acclaim heaped on My Bloody Valentine and Ride evaded the quartet however and eventually, after a string of label and line-up calamities, version 1.0 of the band fell silent after the release of the muted fourth album 99th Dream.”

TOY are back today with their first studio release since 2016’s Clear Shot, and have had plenty of previews during its build-up. The album will be taken on a lengthy tour of Europe starting in Belfast at the Empire Music Hall on February 13th, it continuing until March 17th and an apperance in Lisbon.

And Killers guitarist Dave Keuning has become the last of the original bandmembers to launch a solo or side-project with the release of Prismism, whose single Restless Legs he’s said has lyrics which ‘speak for themselves’. “’Got restless legs/And a restless heart,’ that’s just what came pouring out of me,” he continued.

“It was all I could think of… No other subjects came to mind. It was all I had. The beauty of the words is they’re open-ended enough that you can relate them to your own situation.”


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