PRE-POST-TRUTH

Description

Pre-post-truth sees Swansea Sound expand their musical ambition and broaden their lyrical targets. It used to be YouTube and Spotify that the band railed against, but now everyone's getting their heads round those issues, so why not attack the whole edifice of tech-bro hegemony? This album is loud and it's outspoken, but it's also energetic and very witty. There's an awareness of impotence too: the songs are often self-mocking, asking if it's even possible to make subversive statements in a world where the communication channels are all owned by the tech-bros themselves. Is the title of the album suggests, the pre-post-truth era of innocence is long-gone, if it existed at all, it has disappeared. But it wasn't that great in the past anyway: a world dominated by well-paid opinion-formers, mostly male, who had the power to police our culture. So as long as Hue and Amelia sing, Rob writes songs and plays bass, Ian plays the drums, Bob plays guitar, Catrin Saran James doing artwork and Amelia Fletcher shooting clips, we might mutually face a heavenly future though.