Swim Deep release ‘First Song’, the second single to be taken from the band’s forthcoming new album There’s A Big Star Outside.
There’s A Big Star Outside is due for release on June 7 and was produced by Bill Ryder-Jones. ‘First Song’ taps into their band’s love of gauzy shoegaze and marries it to gentle swaying melodies and one of singer Austin Williams best vocals to date. Stitched together with deeply personal lyrics ‘First Song’ is another sign after comeback single ‘How Many Love Songs Have Died In Vegas?’ of the creative rebirth of Swim Deep and builds further anticipation for the band’s new long player out in the summer.
Frontman Austin talks about the track: “This song came about after Cavan got my heavy into Mogwai, and I got obsessed with this arpeggiated loop I had made. It’s one of those songs that just came crashing in and the baseline made itself. I wanted a driving force of a song that meant business.”
Listen to ‘First Song’ by Swim Deep on our Birmingham City Fan Playlist on Spotify.
Austin continues: “The lyrics are centred around my childhood dream to live a suburban life with two parents, two cars, a cat, a ‘nuclear’ family. However then reflecting that actually what I had was the making of me, and it was actually pretty cool. It offered me raw love, freedom, escapism, and i wouldn’t change it for all the Renault Scenics a big fancy summer holidays in the world.”
There’s A Big Star Outside… heralds a creative rebirth, following close collaboration with beloved solo artist and producer Bill Ryder-Jones. 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.
Swim Deep have announced their first new live dates of the year alongside the single and album. The band kick off the tour in Manchester on June 4 and features eleven dates across the UK.
