Richard Swift -The Hex, 2018
Richard Swift is a name that we may not associate directly with the music he makes, but we have certainly heard his Midas touch, as a producer of artists such as Damien Jurado, Kevin Morby, Nathaniel Ratteliff, Jesse Baylin or Foxygen. And we heard it, almost as a session musician, with the Black Keys, The Shins or The Arcs. However, The Hex comes to us in macabre circumstances, which do not allow us to listen to the record with dry eyes. Richard Swift died in July 2018, aged just 41. The album was almost finished and came out three months later. A bit like David Bowie's Blackstar, we can understand The Hex as an artist farewell. Even more macabre, because he is preparing us for mourning, at the same time that he is also doing his own - in the years before recording the new songs, he lost his mother and sister. Of course, this whole context gives the album an intense dramatic aura, which is still felt, even if the story isn’t known.
Richard Swift is a name that we may not associate directly with the music he makes, but we have certainly heard his Midas touch, as a producer of artists such as Damien Jurado, Kevin Morby, Nathaniel Ratteliff, Jesse Baylin or Foxygen. And we heard it, almost as a session musician, with the Black Keys, The Shins or The Arcs. However, The Hex comes to us in macabre circumstances, which do not allow us to listen to the record with dry eyes. Richard Swift died in July 2018, aged just 41. The album was almost finished and came out three months later. A bit like David Bowie's Blackstar, we can understand The Hex as an artist farewell. Even more macabre, because he is preparing us for mourning, at the same time that he is also doing his own - in the years before recording the new songs, he lost his mother and sister. Of course, this whole context gives the album an intense dramatic aura, which is still felt, even if the story isn’t known.
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