那些不熟悉4ad的朋友，可能对Swallow这支乐队知之甚少，其实Swallow也只是92年在4AD下仅发了一张"Blow"和混音辑"Blowback",94年之后就转投到Rough Trade旗下了。
半实验仙音吉他二人组(我很少把"仙音"这个词安到某个乐队身上)swallow越看越像是一队玩票的,要不然怎么这么多年来二个人一点动静都没有!玩神秘玩失踪也不用这样对待fans嘛!
由mike mason和louise trehy组成的Swallow可谓又是一队给人忽视的4AD乐队,原因?很简单,生不逢时.但如果听惯dreampop的耳朵对他们的声响都会很敏感,你只要比较一下90年代初那拨dreampop/shoegazing队伍的东西,你会发现swallow的声音真的是独此一家别无分号,Cocteau Twins和Lush完全盖不了他们.

Duly impressive is the shear magnitude of Skywave's sound. At live shows, the band is known for soundchecking at half-volume, then cranking it all the way up at curtain time for an unsuspecting soundman. Bassist Oliver Ackerman designs his own effects pedals, including the Supersonic Fuzz Gun and a series called Total Sonic Annihilations, which Skywave employ to help achieve their massive sound. His clientele includes Keith Fullerton Whitman, who used FX-pedal-augmented, laptop-produced guitar tones to construct 2002's beautiful Playthroughs. Synthstatic is similarly experimental in its delicate treatment of extreme noise, and its oscillating high-volume dynamics more than live up to the band's promising URL. The record even sounds potent on laptop speakers.
If only for its formalism is it impossible to call Synthstatic a great album. Bands following similar formulas in different genres might be pilloried, and Skywave will doubtless endure their own share of derision. But some forms of rock, given an occasional tightening of the bolts, never seem to grow stale. Had it been released 15 years ago, a work of this songwriting caliber would likely have been wildly acclaimed. As it is, Synthstatic lacks any shred of originality, but is probably the best of all possible end-results from a monument built completely out of scrap material, a shoegazing "Junkyard Workshop" that, like any successful tribute, enforces the significance of its forebears while managing to hold its own ground.