SWIM DEEP ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM, 'EMERALD CLASSICS'
Autumn 2019 UK live dates
SWIM DEEP herald their return today having been Annie Mac’s Hottest Record on Radio One last night - sharing To Feel Good and announcing details of their new album Emerald Classics, on their newly formed label imprint Pop Committee through Cooking Vinyl on October 4th, 2019 across all formats.
Newly reconfigured as a five-piece they now number original frontman Austin alongside bassist Cav and James on keyboards with ex-Childhood drummer Tomas Tomaski whilst Cav’s catwalk partner-in-crime Robbie Wood takes over guitar duties.
Following the release of 2015’s album Mothers and a US tour with 1975, the band embarked on a self-induced hiatus to take stock – four years and two albums had taken their dreams and good looks and offered them everything in return – An everything that never quite materialised. Personnel changes, friendships revived, relationships requited sees the original axis of Austin and Cav return together with a steely confidence and a collection of their most fully-fledged pop songs yet.
Emerald Classics is available to pre-order here.
The first taste of this new relationship is the gospel infused and spoken word of album opener To Feel Good – Featuring Margate’s Social Singing choir, the track’s a big statement and an even bigger song that transcends the group’s intrinsic feel good factor and DIY ethos of the early days through to the synth-pop strains of Mothers. The Evoking a dose of self-loathing in the shape of a particularly dark but wonderfully shot video, To Feel Good opens another chapter in what thus far has been a life-affirming rollercoaster of reality, struggle and proof that you can keep going.
Recorded on the South East Kent coast over a three week period late last summer with Dave McCracken presiding over production duties – who has worked with everyone from Ian Brown to Beyoncé and proceeded to meld the pop sensibility of their debut and the burned out psychedelia of their second – as Austin recognises; “ He’s a very vital part of this record. Maybe the most vital.” Emerald Classics – an album for dreamers and pub jukeboxes.
TRACKLISTING:
To Feel Good
021 Desire
Bruised
World I Share
Father I Pray
Sail Away, Say Goodbye
Drag Queens In Soho
Happy As Larrie
Top Of The Pops
Never Stop Pinching Myself
Having previously announced a run of 0121 Desire hometown shows in Birmingham, now sold out, Swim Deep have confIrmed a run of dates this Autumn as follows:
June
18 BIRMINGHAM Sunflower Lounge sold out
19 BIRMINGHAM Sunflower Lounge sold out
20 BIRMINGHAM Sunflower Lounge sold out
October
05 BRIGHTON The Haunt
06 CARDIFF The Globe
08 BRISTOL The Exchange
09 SOUTHAMPTON. The Loft
10 LEICESTER O2 Academy
11 LIVERPOOL District
13 GLASGOW Stereo
14 NEWCASTLE The Cluny
15 LEEDS The Wardrobe
19 MANCHESTER Band On The Wall
20 NOTTINGHAM Bodega Social Club
21 NORWICH The Waterfront
22 CAMBRIDGE The Portland Arms