Started the day with some new Swervedriver news, which is always good news, though not quite the kind of good news that fans were probably hoping for, but let’s focus on the good, shall we?

They’ll be putting out a new-ish release on August 30 entitled Doremi Faso Latido. What it is is the third disc of bonus tracks and demos that came with the CD edition of this year’s 99th Dream reissue, pressed to limited edition as its own standalone release. Well, most of the third disc. The vinyl edition will contain 11 of the 15 tracks that appeared on the CD, with the remaining four available as a digital download. If nothing else, it’s good to see that the confusing legacy of 99th Dream releases continue a quarter-century later.

Also part of the announcement was that the band had completed an EP’s worth of new music, currently in the mixing and mastering stage, and slated for release this Fall. More on that when there’s more to say, but for now I’ll celebrate not with some 99th Dream-era material – there’s not a lot of it – but some super-classic stuff that I realize I haven’t really dug into here.

One of their signature tracks comes from 1993’s Mezcal Head, though it was released as a standalone single in May 1992. It ended up with two videos – I would have thought one was bankrolled by Creation in the UK and the fancier one leveraging their A&M budget in the US, but it seems to have only ever been a single in the UK? In any case, it’s a jam and a half.

And as anyone who’s ever tried to learn a Swervedriver song knows, Adam Franklin is a truly idiosyncratic singer/songwriter/guitarist and the way he manages to do all of the above and make it sound so effortless is really something.