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Nov 16, 2018 By Christopher Roberts Swervedriver

Swervedriver are releasing a new album, Future Ruins, on January 25, 2019 via Dangerbird. Previously they shared its first single, “Mary Winter” (which was one of our Songs of the Week). Now they have shared a video for another song from the album, “Drone Lover.” Watch the video below, via The Big Takeover (who premiered it).

Frontman Adam Franklin had this to say about the song in a press release: “I have no recollection of where this tune came from. It’s a song that’s been knocking around for a few years, but for some reason had never been presented to anyone until we were in the studio this time and I clicked play on the demo while searching for something else. TJ and Mikey both went ‘what’s this?’ and then ‘so why aren’t we recording it?’ - and so we recorded it. The lyric mentions love but it’s really about war - remote war and killing from a distance whilst chomping on last night’s leftover pizza or something.”

The British band made their mark in the 1990s as part of the original shoegazing movement, but returned in 2015 with I Wasn’t Born to Lose You, which was their first new album in 17 years.

The album was started in October 2017, just after finishing a U.S. tour performing their classic albums Raise and Mezcal Head in their entirety. “That’s a good way to record,” said Franklin in a previous press release, “because you’ve literally just seen the whites of the audience’s eyes and you’re thinking, ‘If that audience from last night were here now…’ You can’t get too mellow. We came home with 30 different songs.”

Franklin also had this to say about the album in the previous press release: “There’s a lot of foreboding with regard to the future on this album. Space is in there a lot too. In the first song, the character is a spaceman who’s trying to remember what life is really like. Also, it could be about somewhere in the world where winter isn’t like the winter here. A sunny place, but its December or January and you’re trying to remember winter. Something’s going on.”

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