Today, Swim Deep have released their new album ‘There’s A Big Star Outside’. Their fourth album, it has been produced by musical soulmate Bill Ryder-Jones who they recorded the album with in The Wirral and in Brussels. The record is released by Submarine Cat Records, their first long-player on the label.
‘There’s A Big Star Outside’ is deeply personal, lyrically mature and musically fascinating, as the band’s melodic gifts come to the fore with warm, enveloping hooks and a new level of intimacy. With their most raw, affective and mature work to date, now stand on the precipice of something familiar but wholly new: a Swim Deep record that steps into the confident, experienced territory that you just can’t claim when you’re a wide-eyed twenty-something. Stream the album here.
Frontman Austin Williams talks about the album –
“I feel like there’s unfinished business. I feel like I have a duty to our fans and to whatever Swim Deep is – to the entity of it. Sometimes I think, ‘I could have gotten this far in a company in this time’ or ‘I could have done this or that’. Maybe I’ve sacrificed a lot. But this is what I want to do: I want to look back on my life and see Swim Deep records.”
Comeback single ‘How Many Love Songs Have Died In Vegas?’ was the ideal re-introduction whilst follow-up ‘First Song’ demonstrated their creative rebirth was for real as it’s gauzy shoegaze bled through the swaying melodies. The majestic, swooning ‘Robin’ and the string-drenched ‘Very Heaven’ are musically expansive whilst tracks such as ‘Don’t Make Me A Stranger’ have a lush, hazy quality that mixes in a sense of closeness. It adds up to Swim Deep’s most complete album to date.
‘There’s A Big Star Outside’ album tracklisting:
1. How Many Love Songs Have Died In Vegas?
2. Very Heaven
3. These Words
4. Robin
5. Don’t Make Me a Stranger
6. First Song
7. Glitter
8. Big Star
9. It’s Just Sun In Your Eyes
10. So Long, So Far (Marble-Bellied Baby)
11. Fire Surrounds
Swim Deep began their UK tour this week and this continues throughout the week of release of the album. They will then play a handful of EU dates in September. They’ll also be performing stripped back matinee shows and signing records at a handful of independent record stores the week of the album release. All dates are below –
June UK dates –
Fri 7 – Bristol Rough Trade
Sat 8 – Liverpool Jacaranda – *record signing/acoustic show – 1pm*
Sat 8 – Blackpool Bootleg Social
Sun 9 – Kingston Banquet Records – *record signing/acoustic show – 8pm*
Tue 11 – Southsea Pie & Vinyl – *record signing/acoustic show – 1pm*
Tue 11 – Southampton Papillon
Weds 12 – Oxford Bullingdon
Thurs 13 – London VU
Fri 14 – Leeds Key Club
Sat 15 – Leeds The Vinyl Whistle – *record signing/acoustic show – 12pm*
Sat 15 – Newcastle Think Tank
Sun 16 – Edinburgh Mash House
July –
Sat 13 – YAWN Festival
Fri 26 – Latitude Festival
August –
Sun 18 – Hardwick Festival
September EU dates –
Tue 17 – Cologne Yuca
Thurs 19 – Copenhagen Ideal Bar
Sat 21 – The Hague Paard
Sun 22 – Paris Point FMR
Tickets are available here.
Swim Deep are –
Austin Williams
Cavan McCarthy
James Balmont
Robbie Wood
Thomas Fiquet
