{"id":320513,"date":"2026-03-04T01:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/320513\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:27:11","slug":"mute-swan-release-another-simple-pleasure-like-a-chump-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/320513\/","title":{"rendered":"Mute Swan Release “Another Simple Pleasure” & “Like A Chump”: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Friday, the dreamy Tuscon rockers Mute Swan will release their sophomore album Skin Slip, the last album they recorded before the death of their guitarist Tom Sloane. We’ve heard a bit of the record already with singles like “Hypnosis Tapes<\/a>” and “Cocteau Swans<\/a>,”\u00a0and Mute Swan are churning out even more previews of what’s to come with newer songs “Another Simple Pleasure” and “Like A Chump.”<\/p>\n

The psychedelic album closer “Another Simple Pleasure” sees Mute Swan go a bit outside of their comfort zone. They say in a press release:<\/p>\n

This song was originally inspired by the work of Stereolab but took another direction somewhere along the writing and recording process. We experimented with a few sounds we don\u2019t normally use like mellotron strings, hand drums, cowbell, vibraphone etc. The guitar work by Tom Sloane on this track is especially good. I remember telling him, “try to make your guitar sound like a ghost.”<\/p>\n

Released a couple of weeks ago, “Like A Chump” is a very pretty and reverb-heavy cross between shoegaze and Britpop, anchored by a programmed beat. Guitarist\/vocalist Mike Barnett adds:<\/p>\n

I asked our drummer, Gilbert, if he had a beat I could use to write a new song and he said, just use the beat from Nookie by Limp Bizkit. Anyway, I used some of the lyrics too and Hannah McCain (Sonya Blade) sang the outro. We really hope Fred Durst hears it.<\/p>\n

Check out both songs below.<\/p>\n

Skin Slip\u00a0is out 3\/6 via Hit The North\/Wooden Tooth. Pre-order it\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Friday, the dreamy Tuscon rockers Mute Swan will release their sophomore album Skin Slip, the last album…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-320513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}