Going Places

Going Places is an album by experimental music band Yellow Swans, released on March 2, 2010, by Type Records. It is the final album by the band, recorded and released after the band's 2008 breakup. Recording According to the band member Gabriel Mindel Saloman, Yellow Swans felt exhausted after constant touring and the tour-record-tour cycle. To avoid conflicts and stay friends the band decided to break up. The members made a list of things they need to do beforehand, of which making the final album ended up being a top priority. They spent a year working on it, recording it in live single takes in the basement of the Rotture club in Portland, Oregon. "We were more in the zone during these sessions than we’d ever been", says Saloman. Critical reception Going Places received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 81, based on 7 reviews.