Raise released

Swervedriver released their debut album, Raise , on 30 September 1991. It was recorded at The Greenhouse & Falconer Studios and produced by the band, like their prior EPs, and included the title tracks from all three. Regarding the group’s overriding fascination with everything automotive, Franklin had said, “the car thing came from twisting around rock ‘n’ roll imagery. Chuck Berry used to sing about cars. T. Rex used to sing about cars, and being in the car is just a good place to hear music.” The album was praised as “incurably romantic, [getting] its rocks off” as one of the “truly great albums made this year” and charted 44th in the UK . Swervedriver toured the UK extensively in support of the album and was invited to a second BBC Radio 1 session on 23 November 1991. Producer Alan Moulder , who had worked with fellow Creation acts The Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine , introduced himself to Franklin at a bar at the University of North London ‘s ULU music venue with the interest of working together. Moulder met the band at Greenhouse studios and there they recorded Never Lose That Feeling , Swervedriver’s fourth EP, which featured the Raise outtake “The Watchmakers Hands” and the track “Scrawl and Scream”, a slowed-down reworking of “Afterglow”.