Decapitation by Yellow Swans

Pete:
So there was a while where Gabe and I had this housemate who was in this band Samus Aran, who also had this dude, James Downing, in the group. James was a bit of a maniac about town at that time and wanted to do a business card YS CDR. Why not? These CDRs hold a bit less than 6 minutes of music, so three tracks under two minutes... I think we thought they were kind of punk at the time, but this sounds more like Men’s Recovery Project to me, looser, more inept, messier. Sure… Despite the brevity, these tracks aren’t terrible.

From their 2001 founding to the duo’s final shows (and subsequent hiatus) in 2008, Gabriel Mindel Saloman and Pete Swanson aka Yellow Swans carved an influential path through America’s experimental music underground, at the axis of noise, psychedelia, industrial, drone, and hardcore. Their music is restless, ragged, and forever in flux, untethered and unresolved.