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Blonder Tongue Audio Baton 1993

indie rock, lo-fi, rock, shoegaze 43 min 11 tracks Taang! Records

Blonder Tongue Audio Baton is the debut full-length studio album by Swirlies, released in 1993. The band recorded the majority of the album in the summer of 1992 at Q Division Studios, Boston with engineer/co-producer Rich Costey.

indie rock lo-fi rock shoegaze

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Spare, cool, intimate and open-ended.

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Tracks

1[untitled]0:13
2Bell4:30
3Vigilant Always5:10
4His Love Just Washed Away5:24
5His Life of Academic Freedom2:08
6Pancake3:16
7Jeremy Parker4:14
8Park the Car by the Side of the Road5:04
9Tree Chopped Down3:12
10Wrong Tube5:07
11Wait Forever4:18

11 tracks, 43 minutes.

About the album

Artist: Swirlies
Label: Taang! Records
Released: 1993
Type: Album
Format: CD
Country: US

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