Words Are Stupid, by The Black Swans

Words Are Stupid

by The Black Swans

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	1.	Blurk
	2.	Language Tenor 04:16
	3.	Rooster 03:20
	4.	Mary Price 04:37
	5.	Funny Papers 04:25
	6.	Day at the Park of Roses 05:59
	7.	Monkey Man 04:10
	8.	Black Swans Tango 03:03
	9.	Open Sky 04:36
	10.	Kazood 01:34

about

The new album by The Black Swans, Words Are Stupid, is a batch of tunes recorded on 4-tracks and computers in kitchens, basements, and living rooms bound by the central theme of language letting us down and mucking us up. A little bit country and a little bit doom folk, the world of The Black Swans is where humans aren't animals as much as they admire them. A drunk boyfriend goes deaf in Buenos Aires; an artist paints a rooster; couples (don't) learn from the felines and the canines in the comics; cowards climb trees unable to assimilate with monkeys. Throughout, there is a lot of kazoo-ing, the wordless purr of joy. Pitchfork called The Black Swans last album "a sort of blues, full of thoroughly digested worry and world-weariness" and Dusted called their debut "one of the best, most overlooked new folk records of the psych-folk revival". Words Are Stupid is another left turn down the same WTF road traveled by kindred spirits like Hazelwood, Zevon, Robyn Hitchcock, and Michael Hurley. The vinyl LP features 200 different photographs of the same 40 poses from 5 photographers in a field of concrete corn framed in a silk-screened cock-and-balls drawing.