Name: Shadow Swamps
Brand: Metal Preyers

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

NNT038LP

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Black

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-11-18

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

742521170106

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Metal Preyers

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

Nyege Nyege Tapes

Nyege Nyege Tapes is a Kampala based label that is dedicated to exploring, producing, and releasing outsider music from around the region. With a focus on showcasing unique and innovative sounds, this label has become a prominent platform for emerging artists in the music industry.

Founded by *Arabs Are Not Funny* and *Otim Alpha*, Nyege Nyege Tapes has quickly gained recognition for its commitment to pushing boundaries and challenging traditional norms. The label's diverse roster includes talented musicians such as *Slikback*, *Kampire*, and *MC Yallah*, who have all made significant contributions to the global music scene.

Through their distinctive sound and artistic vision, Nyege Nyege Tapes continues to redefine genres and break down barriers. By providing a platform for underrepresented voices in the music industry, this label has become an influential force in promoting cultural exchange and fostering creativity.

Following 2019's acclaimed self-titled debut album, Metal Preyers take the left hand path into a gloomy backwater filled with haunted creatures and fraught with peril. Shadow Swamps again finds London-based Jesse Hackett handling the music and Chicago's Mariano Chavez fashioning the album's visual identity, which this time includes a short film and book for a fully immersive experience. Shadow Swamps is the soundtrack to a pitch-black fairy tale about a father and daughter as they journey through a swamp avoiding gremlins, red swines and crater creatures.

Musically, it pivots between the clattering Czech new wave experimentation of "Valerie and her Week of Wonders" composer Luboš Fišer, or the magical, eccentric lounge of Birmingham's Broadcast, and the grinding industrial grot of Italian pioneer Maurizio Bianchi. This time around, Hackett has roped in production assists from his six yearold-daughter wonder Nyasha hackett who used phone memos to record herself singing - veteran Metal Preyers collaborator Lord Tusk, and Manchester-based painter, DJ and producer Richard Harris, aka Sockethead. The crew inks an unsettling, richly textured sonic landscape, with claws of rhythmic smoke curling around chiming otherworldly xylophone, disembodied fiddle drones echoing over screwed 'n chopped beatbox dirt and half-heard magical vocals buried under clouds of white noise.

Shadow Swamps

Music GB