Jet-Black Wings

A Shoegaze renaissance classic, first time on vinyl.

The shoegaze renaissance classic The Millia Pink And Green EP by Sway has influenced many a modern musician, shoegazer and non-shoegazer alike. Now, Saint Marie Records gives it the long awaited vinyl treatment. The record now weighs a bit more, thanks to the bonus track ‘Channel’ and its 180gm Coke bottle green transparent vinyl.

Sway began making noise in 1999, in Ventura, California. At the time, they were a four-piece garage rock outfit consisting of Andrew Saks, Amber Carlson, Seth Eubanks, and Vince Alatorre, playing shows and confusing audiences up and down the West Coast with its blurry wall of sound. They’re most known for the shoegaze renaissance classic The Millia Pink And Green EP released in 2003.

Andrew’s songwriting and sonic ideals are deeply rooted in the music he was surrounded by while coming of age: late ‘70s and ‘80s pop music.  Falling asleep nightly while listening to 1980s pop and R&B, and then waking up late at night in a dark dreamlike haze with New Order, Swing Out Sister, Talking Heads, Pet Shop Boys, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam whispering through his Walkman’s headphones, the sonic memory of such experiences keep Sway from ever giving itself over fully to the traditional shoegaze elements. The quest to recreate these musical properties is what later led Sway to embrace and be further influenced by the blissful textures of dreampop visionaries such as The Cocteau Twins, Medicine, and My Bloody Valentine.

In 2011, This Was Tomorrow was released by Saint Marie Records.  It was Sway’s first full-length release and its last.

SIDE A
Fall
Sounds Like Everyone
Sullust

SIDE B
Ever and Ever
Opentillate
Channel (Bonus Track)

Sway - Sounds Like Everyone

I WAS A KID (FEAT. EMILY EDROSA)

Labyrinth Song

Tears Run Rings - Mind the Wires - Always, Sometime, Seldom, Never

Mind the Wires

Repetitive Days

Horse Jumper of Love - Ugly Brunette

wait

ROSE PEDALS

Halfway burnt
Burns my gums
We’re Smoking out
And I got too high

My 
heart beats so
Light one more I 
Lose my cool

Why, did I
Get this high

I don’t even smoke 
I like to say I don’t
I have no self control



Roll one up
Don’t have much to do

Don’t wanna
Do no
Don’t wanna 
Be a 
Don’t want 
See the 
I’m at a loss

I’m waiting 
For my
I waiting for my grave

Why, did I
Get this high

I don’t even smoke 
I like to say I don’t
I have no self control

Scared Of Weed

if my demons had a disco party

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Labyrinth Song

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