Swift

Marco Benevento is used to doing things for himself. Since launching his solo career six years ago, Benevento has co-founded the label that releases his music, the Royal Potato Family, and built the studio, Fred Short Sound, where he works whenever he's not on the road. He's written, arranged and played his largely instrumental anthems, leading a band from behind his customized piano and a tiny armada of drum-machines and sequencers, keyboards and pedals. But until Benevento set out to complete his fifth solo album, he'd never sung his own songs, a strange omission for music that's so often been lyrical. That changes-decisively, assuredly, triumphantly- on Swift, the boldest and most bracing album of Benevento's career. An album of crisp, strange Pop songs, sliced through with a wholly original approach to piano, electronics and songwriting, SWIFT is the singular artistic statement Benevento was destined to create at this point in his continually evolving body of work.