| SWERVEDRIVER Announce RAISE: DEMOS: Raw, Original Demo Recordings From the Making of Their Landmark Debut |
| Revisit the rare, psychedelic origins of Raise with a collection of original demos that unearth the roots of Oxford’s legendary 90s guitar heroes… |
| Raise: Demos will be released on 23rd October 2026 by Outer Battery Records | Pre-Order |
| Following the 2024 release of Swervedriver’s celebrated 99th Dream and the essential outtakes/demos LP, Doremi Faso Latido, legendary British rock band Swervedriver are returning to their formative years once more, with the help of Outer Battery Records. This October, the band will release Raise: Demos – a unique collection of original demo recordings that ultimately became their seminal 1991 debut album, Raise. Offering a rare glimpse into Swervedriver at the exact moment their distinctive sound took shape, the collection encompasses rawer, looser interpretations that were closer to the band’s original vision for the album than the finished record that followed. Recorded during the Raise sessions, these demos capture the songs in a stunningly immediate form, before the production and studio process transformed them into one of the defining guitar bands of the early ’90s. Raise: Demos provides a fascinating companion piece, stripping the songs back to their foundations and revealing the ferocious, psychedelic energy that encapsulated Swervedriver’s music at the time. For a band that has always balanced brute-force volume with miraculous melody, texture and experimentation, these recordings offer a unique perspective on the making of Raise. The release also pays tribute to the humble origins of the recordings themselves. The original demos were recorded to cassette, and in keeping with that history, Swervedriver and Outer Battery Records will issue a strictly limited run of 300 cassettes, available exclusively via their webstore and Swervedriver’s Bandcamp. Raise: Demos will also be available digitally, on CD, and silver vinyl (standard edition), as well as in a highly limited run of red vinyl (400 copies). The latter will come packaged with a film-strip-style reproduction of the images featured on the record’s back cover. For anyone revisiting Raise this year on its 35th anniversary, Raise: Demos offers fans the chance to hear one of Swervedriver’s most important records from two very different perspective: the definitive album as it has come to be known, and the rough-edged, instinctive recordings that reveal where it all began. Raise: Demos will be released on 23rd October 2026 by Outer Battery Records | Pre-Order Listen to ‘Flawed’ now ahead of its official release on 14th August 2026 |
