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EVIL SWORD are Kate Ferencz and Ben Furgal from Philadelphia, USA. Their chaotic live shows combine elements of noise, performance art, and gallows humor and feature macabre props, flashing lights, stage sets and costumes. There are hardly any instruments in this group, but they make such a racket you?d never know it. The bass and the percussion sound like they?re having a great time, telling each other jokes. Then the words come in and it all locks together in these strange, hypnotic rhythms. I just listen to the stories and laugh and cry and get scared and wonder what they were ever thinking.
Recent album ?Basket Fever? (Magic Pictures, 2023) features electrocuted bells, backwards parts, rusty horns; I?m pretty sure I even heard a clarinet in there somewhere. There?s this one part where it all seems to come back around, where they took some gang vocals from the very first demo they ever recorded and slowed it way down. When they first started; I thought they were some goofy kids making music about the end of the world, back when that seemed a little further away, like it was going to be fun. They were all laughing and making these funny ghost sounds, but now everyone?s older and the ghosts are real, a great whoosh of bygone spirits and cold air. It?s bone chilling. There?s plenty to be upset about, but it?s not really an Evil Sword song until that grimace has been twisted up into a smile.

https://evilsword.bandcamp.com/album/basket-fever

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199 Eade Rd,

Harringay Warehouse District,

Haringey,

Greater London,

England,

N4 1DN.