Now the Swell EP

The Union Trade

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 6, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 300
• Label: Tricycle Records
• ASIN: B000N6UF9C
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #418,253 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Review

Now The Swell is the perfect find for those of us who obsessively pore through music in search of aural enjoyments to add the soundtracks of our lives. --The Owl Magazine

Product Description

The Union Trade subscribe to an ethic of experimentalism, intent on creating music with a visceral impact. This attitude is reflected in their use of effects, the manipulation of instrumental sounds and feedback, changing tempos, unique song structures, and varying time signatures. The Trade's sound reveals the band's alternative, indie and post-rock influences such as Sonic Youth, Slint, Ride, Mineral, Mogwai, Explosions In The Sky, The Appleseed Cast, Longwave, and Film School. The final, perhaps defining, element of The Union Trade sound is their ability to channel this sonic ambition into carefully crafted and accessible songs with emotional immediacy, in emulation of artists and bands such as Neil Young, Sunny Day Real Estate, Pedro The Lion, Early Day Miners, The New Year and Earlimart.

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Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful, atmospheric and moving, February 11, 2007

By	Don Joslin - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This Union Trade Album is so cinematic and moving. Its quite life changing, The sound is a mixure of shoegaze like ride, slowdive, with the instrumental feeling of mogwai. its truly original and bringing back showgaze in a whole new way with a little aggression thats so believable.The vocals are so rich and nicely effected just adding to the mood and not taking away from it. If you want music that moves you buy this album. I cant wait for thier full length.