Outer Battery Records

30/12/2024

Are you ready for new Swervedriver music in 2025? Watch this space for news!

11/12/2024

HBD, J Mascis 🎉🤘🏼Epic shot of , well done, 👌🏼✨ nab yours: https://www.outerbatteryrecords.com/products/heavy-blanket-moon-is

20/11/2024

It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine digs deep into Swervedriver's with and includes a list of his 20 favorite songs. Dig in!

"Oxford rockers who gave us alt-rock classics like ‘Raise’ and ‘Mezcal Head’, are back with a fresh vinyl release of ‘Doremi Faso Latido.' After last year’s reissue of their nearly lost LP, ‘99th Dream,’ fans flooded Outer Battery Records with requests to finally press ‘Doremi Faso Latido’ on vinyl. Previously available only in a 3CD package, ‘Doremi Faso Latido’ brings together outtakes and demos from the ’99th Dream’ sessions, capturing a vital, rare slice of Swervedriver’s history. This special vinyl edition includes eleven tracks along with four digital-only cuts featuring alternate takes and live versions for a full dive into the band’s archives."- read more: https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2024/11/swervedriver-interview.html

Have your copy yet? Don't miss the 1st pressing: outerbatteryrecords.com

13/11/2024

Swervedriver's new merch store is loaded with new swag; grab yours while supplies last!

06/11/2024

Nailed it, cheers, , there are still copies of the first pressing in stock, going fast! https://outerbatteryrecords.com : I love MBV and Ride, but of all the shoegaze bands, Swervedriver is probably my favorite.
I appreciate their heavier, riffier take on shoegaze…less dreamy and more driving and direct, yet still really melodic with tons of hooks. Plus, I think they are more consistent than their shoegaze counterparts.
Their first 3 records are all absolute classics and still get tons of spins on the turntable. But you can’t go wrong with any of their stuff really.

This one’s a collection of demos and outtakes never before available on vinyl.

https://www.outerbatteryrecords.com/products/swervedriver-doremi-faso-latido-lp

Swervedriver /// Doremi Faso Latido (© Outer Battery Records. 2024)

02/11/2024

It's that time; 's pieces are a little more elaborate this year, created with ink and pencil on colored paper. The sizes range from 5”x8” to 5.5” x8.5”. Grab yours while you can! : : Original drawings available this Saturday Nov 2 at 3pm EST at outerbatteryrecords.com 🙏🏼⚫️⚔️⚪️🙏🏼

27/10/2024

’s is in full swing. Keep your eyes peeled to his & our feeds, they’ll be available on November 2nd and will go fast. ⚡️⚡️⚡️

23/10/2024

Yes & yes 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼Le Vacarme - disquaire ⚡️

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Black & Gold Vinyl. A1 It's TimeA2 Another VictimA3 What's Wrong With MeA4 ConfusionA5 No ChoiceA6 In The BlackA7 You're X'edA8 TrappedA9 NightmareA10 In ControlA11 Stepping StoneA12 Don't Tell MeA13 OutletB1 You're X'

12/10/2024

This goes out to the unsung heroes of swervedriverofficial’s Doremi Faso Latido LP. Mastered to perfection by Tim Turan and designed by Sohrab Habibion. 🫡We salute you⚡️

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07/10/2024

Heads up, friends/fans of Dave and all the music he gave us through the years. Help us reach our goal, and please help spread the word:

Dave Sweetapple passed away suddenly on August 8, 2024, at the age of 58, lea… Shari, Sean and Vahid needs your support for Support Robin After Dave's Passing

01/10/2024

Adam from Swervedriver has been anointed the number one most underrated British guitar player by Far Out Magazine—stoked to see it and stoked Rick Beato gets a shoutout, too.🤘🤘🤘 Open a window and turn their new LP, Doremi Faso Latido, UP☝️☝️☝️: https://bit.ly/SWERVIEDRMFSLTD

"In my eyes, Swervedriver are the most underrated band of their era, which is strange, considering they picked things back up after a decade away in 2008 and have since produced two fantastic records in I Wasn’t Born to Lose You and Future Ruins. Fusing the muscular guitar work of J Mascis and James Williamson with the influence of groups like Sonic Youth and a touch of metal, they have everything right, from the pulsating rhythm section to the dovetailing work of guitarists Adam Franklin and Jimmy Hartridge."

18/09/2024

We agree with Classic Rock Magazine as per usual; this disc *is* exceptional, and Swervedriver *always* sounds great on vinyl. Cheers for shouting out "Canvey Island Baby." ⚡🤘⚡🤘⚡ Grab your copy while supplies last: outerbatteryrecords.com

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09/09/2024

Cheers, 13thfloor//Sheltered Life PR Thanks for the Swervedriver love🤘

The 13th Floor's Jeff Neems finds himself, somewhat unintentionally, revisiting 90s-era Swervedriver. Don't be fooled; this is not a new Swervedriver album. I honestly thought the British alternative rock outfit had banged out another post-reunion album, their third since 2015. I should probably hav...

09/09/2024

"Swervedriver rules." Cheers, Musipedia Of Metal, we think it sounds great on vinyl too, and couldn't agree more: "this material is so strong it could even work as an introduction to this amazing band." - Rich Piva // Musipedia of Metal

Grab your own copy of the first pressing, while supplies last: outerbatteryrecords.com

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Swervedriver - Doremi Faso Latido (Outer Battery Records) [Rich Piva]

Let’s all give Outer Battery Records a round of applause as they are doing music lovers all around the world a solid by re-releasing/re-pressing a bunch of stuff by the awesome and critically underrated Swervedriver. If you are not familiar with the band, they are my favourite of the so-called shoegaze bands and have elements of alt rock, grunge, and dream pop in their sound, but whatever you call it, you must call it awesome.

Last year they did the band’s album 99th Dream and now they are doing a first pressing on vinyl of Doremi Faso Latido, an album originally meant to be a companion to 99th Dream and previously only available in a 3 CD package with that release, now is given to us on wax in all of its lost album shoegaze wonderfulness glory. I had never heard this before, so to get new, yet old Swervedriver material as a big fan is so great, but this material is so strong it could even work as an introduction to this amazing band.

Songs like You’ve Sealed My Fate, Straight Thru Your Heart, and Butterfly are as strong as any of the songs on their other albums. Sea Foam is probably my favourite on here, given its chill yet urgent vibe that Swervedriver is all about. You get 11 songs on the new pressed vinyl, all of which are great and none are just leftovers that didn’t need to see the light of day. Swervedriver rules. If you don’t know, go listen to everything they have done, starting with Mezcal Head, but nothing is short of great that they have ever done. This goes for Doremi Faso Latido, which now becomes even more essential Swerverdriver listening. 8/10

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03/09/2024

Sheltered Life PR excels at getting great music to great listeners. Enjoy ' Ted Leo's conversation with at the link in James' bio ⚡🤘⚡ https://tr.ee/iUVWz8Yn1D

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INTERVIEW /// Always love listening to James McMahon. Love it more now he’s back and on the mend. So here he is doing an interview we set him up with earlier in the year with the one and only Ted Leo, back when we working on all things The Foreign Correspondents at Outer Battery Records.

29/08/2024

Cheers for getting it, Jeff Neems. Fear not, a new EP, of which Doremi Faso Latido is a bit of a primer, coming soon! ⚡⚡⚡

"...generally edgy enough to avoid commercial radio... melodic enough to attract" - The 13th Floor - read more: https://13thfloor.co.nz/swervedriver-doremi-faso-latido-outer-battery/

Order the extremely limited edition of Doremi Faso Latido on classic black vinyl with a silver foil cover— available via mail-order only: https://www.outerbatteryrecords.com/products/swervedriver-doremi-faso-latido-lp

21/08/2024

Killer new shirt design! Don’t miss em. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ : Swervedriver by Ron Liberti! Limited to 300 prints and available at bifocalmedia.com now.

09/08/2024

I first met Dave Sweetapple in the summer of 1981. It was shortly before my 14th birthday, and I had a job delivering newspapers up and down the hills of the Battery in St John's. I had a stack of papers slung over my shoulder, and I was listening to the S*x Pistols' "Never Mind the Bo****ks" on a homemade cassette on my Walkman when I looked up and saw the coolest guy I'd ever seen walking towards me. He was wearing leather pants and a Clash t-shirt and it didn't seem possible that someone that cool could live in St John's. We started talking about music, and he said something along the lines of "If you like the S*x Pistols, then you should really check out these bands," and he rattled off a list of albums that formed the foundation of my musical education. Our 40+ year bond was formed right there and then. Fast-forward to the 1990s and early 2000s, we both found ourselves working in music distribution: me at Cargo and Caroline, and Dave with Surefire.

About a dozen years ago, when it was clear that music distribution was falling apart, we decided that all we could do was double down on a lifetime in music and start a label, so we did just that and named it Outer Battery, after the neighborhood where we both grew up. All those years later, Dave was still the coolest guy... My wife Emily would say that Dave had a way of talking that, in the moment, made you feel like you were the most important person in the world, and everyone who met him came away with that feeling. He was hands down the most charismatic person I have ever met, and I know that there are literally thousands of people around the world who are grieving like I am now.

The last time we spoke was over the weekend. He called on Saturday night, looking for subway directions to TV Eye in Brooklyn so he could see Negative Approach. I was out of town, in Montreal at the Osheaga festival, and the music was too loud to talk. Tug, my 11-year-old daughter, has become the world's biggest Green Day fan, so I texted him pictures of her at the show and he wrote back "Killer! That's so cool" genuinely thrilled that Tug was at a show, seeing a band she loved, and then off he went in the night to see Negative Approach, like it was 1981 all over again.

Words can't express how shocked and saddened I am, my heart goes out to Robin, Ches and Florence, our world just lost its brightest star.