Pigeon Opinion Featuring a Review of Swaggerland EP by Swaggerland

Bronwyn Eather’s Swaggerland is an incredible combination of Australiana, psychedelia, and emotion, with loss and hope coming together to form a beautiful and rich soundscape. The epic guitar solos and grungy riffs sit atop changing drum patterns, creating both tension and release, and the lyrics contain some incredible and incisive feminist poetry. The production is full of subtle layers, with new things to discover on each listen, and textures glinting in the higher end, with hints of mystery lurking in the lower end, and the interplay of sounds and instruments feeling almost cinematic in scope and grandeur. Melancholic and beautiful, Swaggerland is an album of hope and despair, of beauty in decay, of a post-apocalyptic soundscape, and it’s all so intimate and grandiose at the same time, with Eather’s skill as an artist coming in the subtle interplay of subtlety and drama, making the EP feel lived-in and breathing, and it’s evocative, it’s ambitious, and it’s incredible, and it’s also a sign of another incredible step in her already genre-bending and evolving career.

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