The Black Swans - Words Are Stupid

1) Each record cover is painstakingly handmade by the artist 2) Limited to 200 copies worldwide. The new album by The Black Swans, Words Are Stupid, is a batch of tunes recorded on 4-tracks and computers in kitchens, basements, and living rooms bound by the central theme of language letting us down and mucking us up. A semi-deep thought with a whiff of old news that a modern (wo)man might re-post with a capital "Duh." A little bit country and a little bit doom folk, the world of The Black Swans is where humans aren't animals as much as they admire them. A drunk boyfriend goes deaf in Buenos Aires; an artist paints a rooster; couples (don't) learn from the felines and the canines in the comics; cowards climb trees unable to assimilate with monkeys. Throughout, there is a lot of kazooing, the wordless purr of joy. Pitchfork called The Black Swans last album "a sort of blues, full of thoroughly digested worry and world-weariness" and Dusted called their debut "one of the best,most overlooked new folk records of the psych-folk revival." Words Are Stupid is another left turn down the same WTF road traveled by kindred spirits like Hazelwood, Zevon, Robyn Hitchcock, and Michael Hurley.

The vinyl LP features 200 different photographs of the same 40 poses from 5 photographers in a field of concrete corn framed in a silk-screened cock-and-balls drawing.

Tracks : Blurk, Language Tenor, Rooster, Mary Price, Funny Papers, Day at the Park of Roses, Monkey Man, Black Swans Tango, Open Sky, Kazood

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