premiere: Queen of Swords – Rise Instead
Queen of Swords is the new project from Aerin Fogel, formerly of the awesome and severely under-appreciated early 2010's "cave pop" duo the Bitters, who dropped a few legit gems on labels like Captured Tracks + Mexican Summer. Unlike her former group's punchy and infectiously blown-out jams, her new project is all sweeping, dramatic, and achingly pretty indie rock, recorded with Bobb Bru