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Swallow The Rat - STR/Clone - LP *NEW*

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New Zealand's Swallow the Rat and New York's Clone shared a stage in Queens, NYC on perhaps the last day before the city shut down in 2020. A mutual appreciation society was formed over drinks later that night. Swallow the Rat were in town to play the New Colossus Festival, while Clone were playing what was to be the first date of their debut tour of the East Coast. There were plans to share the stage again in New Orleans and in Austin at SXSW.
A global pandemic put paid to this, but the bands kept talking. Both had recently recorded EPs, and so a plan was hatched- a split 12" with songs from both bands. Four tunes apiece, about the irony of memory recall, the loss of friends by their own hand, frustrations of gender role psyche and the fear of looking back. Dissonant delayed guitars and martial drums abound, despite the oceans and continents separating the groups.

Tracklisting
Swallow the Rat - Fall Away
Swallow the Rat - Preservation Plan
Swallow the Rat - Don't
Swallow the Rat - Station
Clone - Deja Vu
Clone - Speak Memory
Clone - Woman of the Year
Clone - Easy on the Eyes