Based on the major arcana of Tarot, each track is named after one of the 22 major arcana cards, inviting listeners to ask a question, press shuffle, and see what card, and answer, they get. 

Yet the answers to our questions lie not only in the name of each song, but the music itself, centering the lyrical and emotional touch of each track. Suddenly The Throne Room feels strangely divine, each line sung by Swandy becoming all the more surreal in its meaning.

Still, the parts of this record that are of this earth ground Swandy’s music for the better. Her bewitching voice dominates, but only to help tease the other sounds at play – scattered percussion, crooked basslines and vexing chord progressions – altogether forming a soundscape that’s bravely feverish.

22 Foolishness

15 Pan

10 Spinning The Wheel

09 Hermit

08 Blind Justice

07 The Charioteer

06 For The Love Of Love

05 Tradition & Religion

04 The Rebel Emperor

03 Comforted By The Empress

02 Facing The High Priestess

01 The Magician

Meet Swandy: a Joburg-based eclectic muso who boasts a hybrid sound which saddles somewhere between alternative pop-rock and electronic.

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