{"product_id":"crooked-fingers-swet-deth-lp","title":"Crooked Fingers - Swet Deth LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne afternoon, Eric Bachmann's son returned from school with a sheath of\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003epictures he'd drawn, all of them macabre. \"There were crows and sinister \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efigures with scythes and tombstones,\" he recalls. On one, he had written \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'DETH, SWET DETH,' and everything clicked in my head.\" Swet Deth, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBachmann's first album under his Crooked Fingers moniker after a 15-year \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehiatus, organized itself around the image: it's songs are about death, yes, but \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethere's a sweetness to them, a wry sensibility to his lyrics that comes from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehaving experienced many kinds of death and the life that follows in it's wake. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Crooked Fingers\" is a historically slippery concept - no two albums \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esound alike or feature the same lineup in studio or on tour. Hearing parts in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethese songs that called for instruments he didn't play or vocals that weren't \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein his register, he found himself expanding the roster of guest musicians \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efurther than he had on any album in his catalog, including Sharon Van Etten \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(\"Haunted\"), The National's Matt Berninger (\"From All Ways\"), and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSuperchunk's Mac McCaughan (\"Cold Waves\"). But first he started with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efamily, friends, and frequent collaborators. Jon Rauhouse plays pedal steel. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBachmann's wife, Liz Durrett, contributes vocals, as do members of his \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etouring band, Skylar Gudasz and Avery Leigh Draut (of Night Palace). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere is a freedom to this collection of songs, a groove to them that would \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebelie their agonies and anxieties were mere death the album's point and not \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewhat comes before. For Eric Bachmann, that has been growth, as a musician \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand as a man. Like the tree sprouting from the graveyard on it's cover, Swet \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDeth is surprising and lush, a shock of color against it's morbid landscape, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eproof of life in the shadow of it's opposite. \"RIP Eric Bachmann,\" one \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etombstone reads. As Crooked Fingers, he's never felt more alive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SCD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43092617658486,"sku":"673855087818","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1276\/9409\/files\/4484911-3506331.jpg?v=1772066496","url":"https:\/\/erodingwinds.com\/products\/crooked-fingers-swet-deth-lp","provider":"Eroding Winds","version":"1.0","type":"link"}