The Black Swans

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The Black Swans are from Columbus, Ohio, and they always travel in a ’95 Ford Taurus. Their latest release is a 5-song ep entitled Sex Brain (my second favorite ep of 2006) that explores some pretty uncomfortable, if often funny and always universal subject matter, and in the sweetest of ways. This is folk-ish music, with soft melodies and acoustic instrumentation and hushed vocals that are sometimes just barely choked out by singer Jerry DeCicca.
If you’re not into the sex talk, you might be interested in checking out their first record, Who Will Walk in the Darkenss With You, which shares the theme of relationships, longing, and trying to get by on your own (in certain ways, if you know what I mean). Here are the two tracks the band makes available from that record:
The Black Swans – “Who will walk in the darkness with you”
The Black Swans – “Blue skies”
I feel bad for not getting around to posting this earlier as I had planned – the Black Swans performed last night at Tonic (I missed it too.) But don’t worry, you haven’t missed your shot at seeing them in this not-frequent-enough stop in NY! They’ll be at the Marquise Dance Hall in Williamsburg tonight (Friday, January 19 – moved from the Syrup Room – which is closed for good now?) along with Lewis and Clarke, which is who I saw them with the first time in a tiny, way awesome record shop in Maine last year.
By the way, according to Brooklynvegan, everybody gets signed! (including Palomar! – perhaps a congratulatory robot drawing is in order, it’s long overdue for one of my longtime favorite local bands) and Sin-e and R+R are going bye-bye. So what’s left for decent smallish shows on the Lower East Side? The Delancey, the Annex, and Fontana’s?