Swallow the Rat release new single ‘MMA Math’
Tāmaki Makaurau psych-post-punks Swallow the Rat today release a new single, MMA Math, ahead of their Face Unpopular EP, and the EP release tour which kicks off on Friday May 23rd.
Swallow the Rat drummer and video-maker Hayden Fritchley says, “MMA Math is essentially the realisation that A plus B does not always equal C, especially when you remove context.
For recording we employed our usual approach which is to bash it out in one or two takes then add vocals.
The visualizer for the song is live footage from our show last year at The Lost Well in Austin, TX. It was filmed by the Boston-based collective Digital Awareness using real time video projections of the band put through various analogue effects.”
The band spent a weekend at the end of last year with Nick Abbott at his Auckland studio, recording three new songs which will feature on the Face Unpopular EP. They’re the last tracks written and recorded with singer/bassist Stephen Horsley, who left (amicably) to pursue adventures in recording and production.
In addition to the three new originals, the Face Unpopular EP will feature a blistering remix by A Place To Bury Strangers, and will be released on 7″ vinyl via Otautahi/Christchurch imprint Leather Jacket Records.
New to Swallow the Rat are Jimmy Coldham on guitar and Nicholas Auguston on bass. The new configuration band have already played two shows this year, with an EP release tour on the way for May and June.
