4 Hits & A Miss: The Essential Richard Swift (Vinyl LP)

Over the course of his fifteen short years releasing and producing music, Richard Swift - who died of complications relating to alcoholism at only 41 - achieved more than most could dream of doing in a lifetime. 4 Hits & A Miss: The Essential Richard Swift finds Secretly Canadian making a valiant effort to summarise an impossibly eclectic and fabulous song writing career, with fourteen of his finest moments collected in one electric volume. - Flying Out

Devotees of Richard Swift know that his catalog is sprawly and imaginative, packed with as many finely-honed stone-cold classics as one-take, madman experiments. The gems take all shapes and sizes, and while it doesn’t phase the diehard, it does make Swift’s music tricky to introduce to the newcomer: Where to start? What makes the cut? How many crooners? How many wild ones? It’s with this in mind that Secretly Canadian presents 4 Hits & A Miss, our humble swing at gathering the forty-seven minutes and fourteen songs that can initiate the uninitiated.

Tracklist

1. The Original Thought
2. Dirty Jim
3. Would You?
4. Atlantic Ocean
5. Buildings In America
6. Common Law
7. Broken Finger Blues
8. Lady Luck
9. A Song For Milton Feher
10. The Songs of National Freedom
11. The Novelist
12. Ballad of You Know Who
13. Whitman
14. Walking Without Effort Theme