Following the 2024 release of Swervedriver’s celebrated “99th Dream” and the essential outtakes/demos LP, “Doremi Faso Latido,” legendary British Rock band Swervedriver are returning to their formative years once more, with the help of Outer Battery Records.
Stream “Flawed” now ahead of its official release on 14th August 2026 via the SoundCloud player below:
This October, the band will release “Raise: Demos” – a unique collection of original demo recordings that ultimately became their seminal 1991 debut album, “Raise.” Offering a rare glimpse into Swervedriver at the exact moment their distinctive sound took shape, the collection encompasses rawer, looser interpretations that were closer to the band’s original vision for the album than the finished record that followed. Recorded during the “Raise” sessions, these demos capture the songs in a stunningly immediate form, before the production and studio process transformed them into one of the defining guitar bands of the early ’90s.
“Raise: Demos” provides a fascinating companion piece, stripping the songs back to their foundations and revealing the ferocious, Psychedelic energy that encapsulated Swervedriver’s music at the time. For a band that has always balanced brute-force volume with miraculous melody, texture and experimentation, these recordings offer a unique perspective on the making of “Raise.”
The release also pays tribute to the humble origins of the recordings themselves. The original demos were recorded to cassette, and in keeping with that history, Swervedriver and Outer Battery Records will issue a strictly limited run of 300 cassettes, available exclusively via their webstore and Swervedriver’s Bandcamp. “Raise: Demos” will also be available digitally, on CD, and silver vinyl (standard edition), as well as in a highly limited run of red vinyl (400 copies). The latter will come packaged with a film-strip-style reproduction of the images featured on the record’s back cover.
For anyone revisiting “Raise” this year on its 35th anniversary, “Raise: Demos” offers fans the chance to hear one of Swervedriver’s most important records from two very different perspective: the definitive album as it has come to be known, and the rough-edged, instinctive recordings that reveal where it all began.
“Raise: Demos” will be released on 23rd October 2026 by Outer Battery Records | Pre-Order
Tracklist:
01. Sandblasted
02. Flawed
03. Feel So Real
04. Deep Seat
05. Sunset
06. Hands
07. Pile Up
08. Lead Me Where You Dare
09. Sci Flyer
10. Mustang IV