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A Screw

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Released
  
1986

Label
  
K.422

A Screw (1986)
  
Holy Money (1986)

Length
  
16:34

Producer
  
Michael Gira

Genre
  
Industrial, experimental rock

A Screw is an EP by the New York City experimental rock group Swans. The EP was later reissued as additional tracks to the CD release of Holy Money. The single's title song shows the band diving their farthest into the realm of industrial dance music, complete with dubby, distorted vocals, and complex programmed rhythms, an interesting contrast to the naturalistic album version. The piano-driven ode to obsessive love "Blackmail", meanwhile, introduces Jarboe in her first turn as lead vocalist. A heavily reworked version of the track appeared on the 1987 album Children of God.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "A Screw" – 5:41
  2. "Blackmail" – 4:43
  3. "A Screw (Holy Money) (Mix)" – 5:00

Track 1 and 3 were mislabeled on most original releases. Later issues like the "Greed/Holy Money" compilation corrected this.

Musicians

  • Michael Gira – vocals, samples, sounds, piano, bass
  • Norman Westberg – guitar
  • Harry Crosby – bass
  • Algis Kizys – bass
  • Jarboe – vocals, backing vocals, mirage
  • Ronaldo Gonzalez – drums
  • Ted Parsons – drums
  • Ivan Nahem – drums
  • Greg Grinnell – trumpet
  • Keene Carse – trombone
  • References

    A Screw Wikipedia