Much-loved Midlands indie group Swim Deep will release new album ‘There’s A Big Star Outside’ this summer.
The band worked on the album alongside producer Bill Ryder-Jones, and the material reflects shifts – both subtle and profound – in their lives. Singer Austin ‘Ozzy’ Williams became a father for the first time following their album ‘Emerald Classics’, and this prompted a period of reflection.
As a result, the lyrics deal with commitment, broken relationships, and learning to set things straight – something exemplified on new single ‘How Many Love Songs Have Died In Vegas?’.
Out now, it’s a slow-paced return, with the melodic intent covering you in a mist of sound. Bill Ryder-Jones keeps the production refreshingly simple, with the song allowed to breathe – there’s a quiet confidence to their work.
Swim Deep’s Austin ‘Ozzy’ Williams comments…
‘How Many Love Songs In Vegas?’ is a song that’s been stitched together over a few years, a great melody made in a shed (like all the good ones are) that never found its song. Until Swim Deep’s Lord saviour Bill Ryder Jones insisted we persist with it as it was ‘dead good’. We tried everything, and even after going full Flaming Lips at the Wacky Warehouse on it, still, nothing felt perfect… until we sat back, drank some gin and listened to Yo La Tengo & Red House Painters. And suddenly it clicked, Bill saw the light and I followed him like I would off a cliff.
A song I wrote after pondering whether marriage was ill fated, and statistically doomed, just like my parents and all my friend’s parents’ ones seemed to turn out. An anxiety laced love song in which I deny all of those odds stacked against me and my wife, the best person ever.
Tune in now.
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. Big Star
8. It’s Just Sun In Your Eyes
9. So Long, So Far (Marble-Bellied Baby)
10. Fire Surrounds
Photo Credit: Steve Gullick
