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Adam Franklin’s band Swervedriver rode the ’90s shoegaze craze into stadium tours and high-profile releases on Creation Records, the be-all, end-all of British hip in that pre-Britpop era. Franklin could be touring right now with Swervedriver, who broke up in 1998, but reunited in 2008 at Coachella before embarking on a world tour. Instead he’ll be playing the Blank with his backing band the Bolts of Melody, with whom he’s about to release his third solo album under his own name, I Could Sleep For A Thousand Years. His solo records have sort of come back around to the Swervedriver sound over the last 10 years, and he says that’s more true than ever on the new record. It was probably influenced, he admits, by playing with his former bandmates on the reunion tour. “I was quite surprised at how fast and loud and heavy the songs were compared to what I was doing in the interim. It’s fun plugging in and playing that loud swirling guitar,” he says. Franklin’s newest songs combine all sides of his complex and varied career, from the big 1995 guitar sound, to his acoustic period in the early 2000s, to the more laid-back fuzz of last year’s Spent Bullets. It’s hard to say where he’ll pop up next—Blank Club or big tour—and what he’ll be playing when he does. He likes it that way. “If people aren’t really sure what’s going to happen next,” he says, “that’s the perfect thing.” — Steve Palopoli sanjose.com
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