Swing Out Sister - Filth and Dreams (1999 EAC FLAC)

Swing Out Sister - Filth and Dreams (1999 EAC FLAC)

Swing Out Sister
Filth and Dreams 1999 (Only Released in Japan) Rare
Mercury PHCW-1015
EAC FLAC



01 - Swing Out Sister - Who's Been Sleeping.flac
02 - Swing Out Sister - Closer Than the Sun.flac
03 - Swing Out Sister - Sugar Free.flac
04 - Swing Out Sister - Filth and Dreams.flac
05 - Swing Out Sister - Happy When You're High.flac
06 - Swing Out Sister - If I Had the Heart.flac
07 - Swing Out Sister - When Morning Comes.flac
08 - Swing Out Sister - Invisible.flac
09 - Swing Out Sister - World Out of Control.flac
10 - Swing Out Sister - Make You Stay.flac


Filth and Dreams, their sixth album, proved yet again that Swing Out Sister were eager to reinvent themselves. The album was released in Japan in March 1999, and it remains the only album not released in any other country. This album featured stronger jazz leanings than some of their early pop-oriented albums, and is restrained in mood. The track "Who's Been Sleeping" was promoted as a single and released with several remixes. For this record, SOS adapted to the growing popularity of hip-hop in the late '90s. "Who's Been Sleeping" kicks off the record with an aggressive beat and a few hip-hop flourishes (such as Drewery's counting and uttering "Yeah ..." in the background.) The rest of the record incorporates such sounds a bit more subtly, through the soaring retro stylings of "Closer Than the Sun" and "When Morning Comes" to the excitable lounge of the title track to the mid-tempo trip-hop of "Invisible" and scratch-laced "Sugar Free." Traditional SOS sounds are challenged successfully with the darkly dreamy "If I Had the Heart" and "Make You Stay." Background noises, from telephone conversations to child's play, also enrich the record and give the listener much more to cue in on. Drewery strays out of the usual love lyrics and colours a portrait of a darker world (as the title indicates) by singing about more urban subjects such as drugs (the eerie "Happy When You're High") and prostitution ("When Morning Comes").

All of their experimentation works surprisingly well and the result is probably the strongest SOS outing to date. Ironically, Filth and Dreams is the first SOS record not released in their native England, and is currently the most difficult CD to find