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What the reviewers are saying: "The Portland, Ore. duo return with a solid five song EP [Cloud Machines] followup to last year's, Me With Trees Towering, filled with dark but perky emo-psyechdelia-grunge that owes as much to DIY punk as it does to 70's art rock." - Curve Magazine " The vocals are key to Swallows' evolution on Cloud Machines, but equally crucial are Miller's increasingly adventurous drums. The group's earlier songs hint at impatience with straight-ahead rock rhythms ...— both "Words of Love" and "Pulsar Heart Attack" from Me with Trees Towering include unorthodox tom-tom rumbles — and tradition has now been pretty thoroughly dismissed. The beats of Swallows 2.0 almost encroach on world music territory, an effect increased by Miller's out-of-order kit and unusual tuning." - Theo Schell-Lambert/The San Francisco Bay Guardian Please visit Swallows website for the most recent press, dates, and news about the band.

From opposite coasts, Jon Miller (Western Massachusetts) and Em Brownlowe (San Diego) converged in Portland, Oregon during the summer of 2003 and started making music together.

Duality and opposition drive Swallows music: Poppy and danceable yet dark and brooding. A brigade of drums and thundering tribal beats create a raucous trance interlaced with intricate, soul-infused vocal layers. Strong bursts, “beautifully messy” breakdowns and genius redevelopments are the perfect metaphor for this young queer duo, as they navigate densely spacious territory in music – and in life.

Their new EP, Cloud Machines, was recorded with the intent of capturing the raw, visceral and emotive sonic landscape they envisioned in their minds. The instrumentation was recorded together, in Kipp Crawford’s studio. Em Brownlowe recorded all the vocal melodies and harmonies in the bands practice studio.
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Em Brownlowe: Vocals, Guitar
Jon Miller: Drums
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The Raincoats, Two Ton Boa, The Doors, Young People, Patti Smith, Fiery Furnaces + PJ Harvey.
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songsofswallows.com
myspace.com/theswallows
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“Brownlowe and Miller have created a beautifully messy sound, combining tribal rhythms and off-kilter guitar work that is equal parts early ’80s no wave and late ’90s math rock” ~ West Coast Performer

“God bless the Swallows, a Portland guitar/drum duo with bruising toms and clear, blue sky vox” ~ Punk Planet

“Swallows write complex guitar-centric pieces that are specifically designed to map out new and ingenious ways into your dance feet” ~ Smother

“Swallows manage to cover a lot of ground in terms of tempo and depth while impressively maintaining a flow.” ~ Willamette Week

“Brownlowe’s guitar work is elegant and uses a wide range of tones, from low-slung garage to the off-kilter grooves of alt-rock, with the occasional floaty melodic cascade thrown in for good measure...(her) pissed-off purr echoes around behind its precise, oppressive wall of New York post-punk like the revenge you can’t bring yourself to take.” ~ 3AM
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