Watch Flock of Dimes (Wye Oak) and Thor & Friends (Swans) Perform Together

Flock of Dimes (aka Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner) is putting out a new album, If You See Me, Say Yes, on September 23 via Partisan. (The album is currently streaming via NPR’s First Listen.) Thor Harris of Swans has a new band called Thor & Friends, who are putting out a new album on October 7. The two bands came together at Harris’s house in Austin, Texas recently to perform songs from the upcoming Flock of Dimes album. Below, watch their performances of “Everything Is Happening Today” and “Semaphore,” via Pitchfork.tv. And tune in to Pitchfork Radio at 2 p.m. today to hear two more songs from the session.

Wasner said in a statement:

Earlier this year, my friend Thor sent me the results of his latest creative endeavor—a record from a band he was calling Thor and Friends. At the time, I was still knee-deep in my own record-making process, and was exhausted by the sound of my own voice. The record that Thor sent me became a constant presence in my life after that. I became so attached to it that I asked Thor if he and his aforementioned friends might be willing to spend some time with me, reimagining some of the songs on my forthcoming record. And so—lucky me—I got to spend a few days in Austin with these talented, kind, creative people, breathing new life into a group of songs that I had already lived with for years.

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