{"product_id":"crooked-fingers_swet-deth_2026_mdl","title":"Swet Deth","description":"One afternoon, Eric Bachmann's son came home from school with a stack of drawings he'd made, all macabre. There were ravens, sinister figures with scythes, and tombstones. On one of them, he had written \"DETH, SWET DETH,\" and everything clicked in Bachmann's head. *Swet Deth*, the first album under the pseudonym Crooked Fingers after a 15-year hiatus, was built around this image: its songs are about death, certainly, but they possess a sweetness, an acerbic sensitivity in the lyrics that comes from having experienced various kinds of deaths, all opening the door to a new form of life. Crooked Fingers has always had a fluid concept: no two albums sound alike or have the same lineup, both in the studio and on tour. Feeling that some tracks required instruments he didn't play or voices not in his range, he decided to broaden the list of guest musicians more than he had on other albums in his catalog, including Sharon Van Etten (\"Haunted\"), Matt Berninger of The National (\"From All Ways\"), and Mac McCaughan of Superchunk (\"Cold Waves\"). But he started first with his family, friends, and usual collaborators. Jon Rauhouse plays pedal steel. His wife, Liz Durrett, contributes backing vocals, as do members of his touring band, Skylar Gudasz and Avery Leigh Draut of Night Palace. These are songs full of freedom, with a groove that betrays the fact that the torments and anxieties within them are linked to death, the central point of the album, and not what precedes it. For Eric Bachmann, this album is a transcendence, both as a musician and as a man. Like the tree growing in the cemetery depicted on the album cover, *Swet Deth* is surprising and lush, an explosion of colors that contrasts with its morbid landscape, proof of life in the shadow of its opposite. \"RIP Eric Bachmann,\" reads a tombstone. As Crooked Fingers, he has never felt so alive.","brand":"Crooked Fingers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56383649612120,"sku":null,"price":20260227.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/0673855087818_9aadaf37-7e5a-4c4e-a721-7d87c6392b0e.jpg?v=1769712071","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/crooked-fingers_swet-deth_2026_mdl","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}