When Robyn Hitchcock found himself standing next to Emma Swift at an Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell concert in 2013, a new portal in sadcore music opened up. That Christmas found them living and rehearsing in the tiny kitchen of a damp English sea-side flat once inhabited by Charles Darwin. Drawn together musically by a penchant for songs of desire and desolation, Robyn's crystalline guitar-playing and Swift's yearning harmonies evoke a psychic landscape where  ghost trams lumber through the desert and desperate cacti grow beneath the sea.

It's so unlikely it's inevitable. 


Produced by Tubby Vincent

SIDE A

Follow Your Money 
4:18
(Robyn Hitchcock) BMG/Chrysalis

SIDE B

Motion Pictures 
4:32
(Neil Young) Broken Arrow

Follow Your Money

Recorded in Kitchener, Ontario by Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) this limited edition vinyl single is a double A side featuring two original compositions by Hitchcock and Swift.

A) Love is a Drag 
B) Life is Change 

iTunes: 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/love-is-a-drag/id1151572513?i=1151572664

Spotify: 

https://open.spotify.com/album/4Fe3Bu8VxXxItfBkDzH9yc

Pre-order vinyl: 

http://robynhitchcock.bigcartel.com/product/robyn-hitchcock-emma-swift-love-is-a-drag-7-inch

Love Is A Drag

“Robyn Hitchcock and Wilco's Patrick Sansone guest on this nifty collection of Dylan covers, including a quick-on-the-draw 'I Contain Multitudes'." -UNCUT MAGAZINE

"There’s a Byrdsian chime here, a Carnaby Street lilt there, and pedal steel swoons bolstering Emma’s seemingly effortless vocals. Swift, like Dylan himself, contains multitudes.”  - Jody Denberg, KUTX Austin

“An Emma Swift performance can bring you to the edge of tears, because her voice is both heartbreaking and heartbroken all at once. It takes a lot of resilience to be so vulnerable. She brings this strength and beauty to her upcoming album “Blonde On The Tracks,” a collection of her interpretations of Bob Dylan songs.”  - Gina Frary Bacon, WFMU New York

"Australian singer-songwriter Emma Swift has recorded an album of Dylan covers titled Blonde on the Tracks which is set for release in August. And the first track she opted to release was not a familiar classic but a stunningly warm, heartfelt version of “I Contain Multitudes.” She serves it up as a hypnotic, melodic hymn, very reminiscent in style of vintage Gillian Welch, resulting in something exceptionally beautiful." - Hope Silverman, Cover Me Songs

Blonde on the Tracks

You're A Big Girl Now

The Man In Me

Emma Swift is an Australian-born songwriter, currently residing in the USA. A gifted singer inspired by Joni Mitchell, Marianne Faithfull and a plethora of dead poets, her sound is a blend of classic folk, Americana and indie rock.

In August 2020 she released the critically-acclaimed “Blonde On The Tracks”, a Laurel Canyon inspired reimagining of some of her favourite Bob Dylan tunes on Tiny Ghost Records. The album received Best of 2020 accolades from Rolling Stone, Nashville Scene, No Depression, The Guardian and more.

One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)

Simple Twist Of Fate

Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands

Queen Jane Approximately

I Contain Multitudes

Emma Swift is an Australian-born songwriter, currently residing in the USA. A gifted singer inspired by Joni Mitchell, Marianne Faithfull and a plethora of dead poets, her sound is a blend of classic folk, Americana and indie rock.

In August 2020 she released the critically-acclaimed “Blonde On The Tracks”, a Laurel Canyon inspired reimagining of some of her favourite Bob Dylan tunes on Tiny Ghost Records. The album received Best of 2020 accolades from Rolling Stone, Nashville Scene, No Depression, The Guardian and more.

“Her high, clear voice highlights each syllable, letting you hear the words form, one seemingly following inevitably from the other, until they feel handed down, fragments of old songs now speaking to each other.” - Greil Marcus, LA REVIEW OF BOOKS

“Swift navigates Sansone's majestic folk-rock arrangements like the able captain of a frigate sailing over shimmering seas.” - Bud Scoppa, UNCUT MAGAZINE

“Nobody has ever sung Dylan quite like this Nashville-based Australian singer-songwriter, nor with such a rare interpretive gift…comparable to Emmylou Harris’s Wrecking Ball in its intent, execution and intimacy.” - Andrew Stafford, THE GUARDIAN

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