{"product_id":"the-hex","title":"The Hex","description":"\u003cp\u003eRichard Swift believed in and sought real beauty. And so, even at its most caustic and sardonic, his masterpiece swan song \u003ci\u003eThe Hex\u003c\/i\u003e is beautiful. Conceived in pieces over the last several years and completed just the month before his passing, \u003ci\u003eThe Hex\u003c\/i\u003e is the grand statement Swift acolytes have been a-wishin-and-a-hopin’ for all these years. After a career of sticking some of his finest songs on EPs and 45s, here are all his powers coalescing into a single, long-player statement. At its core, \u003ci\u003eThe Hex\u003c\/i\u003e is an aching call out into the void for Swift’s mother (\u003ci\u003eWendy\u003c\/i\u003e) and his sister (\u003ci\u003eSister Song\u003c\/i\u003e) whom he lost in back-to-back years. You hear a man at his lowest and spiritually on his heels. The pain fueling Swift’s cries of “She’s never comin’ back” on the absolutely gutting standout \u003ci\u003eNancy\u003c\/i\u003e is some sort of dark catharsis for anyone who’s ever lost a loved one to the cold abstraction of Death. Over a slow, Wall of Sound kick and a warbling synth, Swift’s cries climb higher-n-higher-n-higher into what may be his most devastating vocal performance on record. A cry of pain so real and so raw Swift had to treat the performance with just a little studio effect, without which the recorded grieving might be too much to bear. \u003ci\u003eThe Hex\u003c\/i\u003e is presented here as \u003ci\u003eThe Hex For Family and Friends\u003c\/i\u003e. An obsessive fan of Wall of Sound doo-wop, early Funkadelic, Bo Diddley, Beefheart and Link Wray, Swift gives them all a moment with the flashlight around The Hex campfire, one moment to make a strange shadow-cast face for us, his family and friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - With Download.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secretly Canadian","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50405664817483,"sku":"1046565","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50405668716875,"sku":"1046564","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/58c1397d-ea1b-47df-92a8-cceb0fe62d14_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726580623","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/the-hex","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}