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Swervedriver
Bridging both the harsh, tattered scowl of the grunge movement and the dreamy
fuzz of the shoegaze scene, Swervedriver were cult indie favourites in the UK
and US in the early 1990s, describing their sound as 'space travel rock & roll'.
Guitarists Adam Franklin and Jimmy Hartridge originally began playing together
in Oxford in the mid-'80s with Stooges and MC5-influenced outfit Shake Appeal,
but the emergence of Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Husker Du and a new generation
of scorched, angular, experimental alternative bands in the US later inspired
them to change direction. With ...
