Warp Records
2004
The Double Gone Chapel
About This Album
On From the Double Gone Chapel, their first album of new material in four years, Two Lone Swordsmen move forward by looking back at electronic punk, post-punk, and their forebears, including the work of Joy Division, the Normal, Suicide, Public Image Ltd., and Gary Numan. The album's dark, electronica-meets-rock aesthetic isn't strictly retro, however; it's shared by Death in Vegas, David Holmes, and the recent work by Primal Scream (whose classic Screamadelica was produced, of course, by Andy Weatherall). On paper, From the Double Gone Chapel's mix of live instrumentation and vocals -- Weatherall sings and plays bass, Keith Tenniswood handles guitar duty, and a host of drummers backs them up -- with their more usual modus operandi sounds like a bigger departure than it actually is. It's true that this album won't be mistaken for Tiny Reminders, but there are enough techno and electro underpinnings here (particularly on "The Valve," the album's moodiest, most overtly electronic track) to make it recognizably the work of Two Lone Swordsmen. More importantly, the duo apply the album's palette of raw, dense, and murky textures just as precisely as they've used clean and crisp sounds on their previous work.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,6 and 8)

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