Name: Ground Trouble Jaw / Walt Wolfman
Brand: Richard Swift

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SC387LP

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Colour

Black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

With Obi Strip.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-04-17

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0656605038711

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Total Cap

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

Artist

Richard Swift

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Secretly Canadian

Secretly Canadian is a US label based in Bloomington, Indiana. It was founded in 1996 by four individuals who are passionate about music. Originally known as Secretly Canadian Records, the label has established itself as a prominent player in the industry. In 2007, Secretly Canadian collaborated with another label to form a new entity called Jagjaguwar.

The label's first address was located at 1703 N. Maple St., Bloomington, until sometime in late 2000 or 2001. They then moved to their second address at 1021 S. Walnut St., Bloomington, which served as their headquarters until around 2004. Currently, Secretly Canadian can be found at their third and current address at 1499 W. 2nd St.

With a rich history and an impressive roster of artists, Secretly Canadian continues to make waves in the music industry. Their commitment to quality and passion for supporting talented musicians sets them apart from other labels.

Ground Trouble Jaw / Walt Wolfman: It was a great Swiftian irony that the shining moment of realization that is Ground Trouble Jaw first saw its release as a modest, digital-only EP in 2008. Here Secretly Canadian right that wrong and pair it with 2011’s Walt Wolfman EP, very much a spiritual twin of Ground Trouble Jaw.

Ground Trouble Jaw is the lens that pulls Swift’s catalogue into a focused oeuvre. It was the first release that folded the tireless, vying personalities of Richard Swift’s art - the art brut R&amp;B of Onasis; the John Fante saloon player of The Novelist; the Brill Building songcraft of Dressed Up For The Letdown - into a singular, succinct artistic statement. Here is a man discovering at once his own capacity for timelessness. The triumphant, Sly Stone burner Lady Luck feels like a song your heart knew before you did, a ripe jazz apple that Swift plucked on a stroll through the orchard. You can feel his joy and the responsibility of his personal discovery. You can imagine a not-to-distant future in which parents and children slowdance together at weddings to the childhood sweetheart doowop of Would You. The electric artistic breakthrough is palpable.

Walt Wolfman’s blown-out, basement R&amp;B speaker-shredders are not for the faint of heart. Highlight of the set, MG 33 is a raw and ghostly trance, a blast of kinetic energy and that jazz apple smoke blown right in your face. The quasi-title track Walt Whitman is a cryptic salute to Whitman, whose American lineage of primal, urgent art can be traced to include Kerouac and Ray Johnson, Bo Diddley and Beefheart - right on through to Swift himself. He was an outsiderpop wanderkind who could do more with one worn, old mic than most men could with a high-end studio, taking ‘the holy moment’ and making it eternal.

Ground Trouble Jaw /  Walt Wolfman

Music GB