“When you're 13 years old living in Solihull, England, is there anything better to do than form a band? Never mind your musical acumen-- what else would you do? This is how Swell Maps formed in 1972: six kids in their early teens calling themselves Sacred Mushroom and fancying themselves a band-- in spite of the fact that they never gigged or recorded until 1977, after punk broke and they realized ”
