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If there's one thing clear from the outset of the revealing fourth album 'There’s A Big Star Outside...', it's that Swim Deep is no longer the same band you've always known. After a rollercoaster of personal reckonings and extreme professional highs and lows, the quintet - singer Austin 'Ozzy' Williams, bassist Cavan McCarthy, keyboardist James Balmont, guitarist Robbie Wood, and drummer Thomas Fiquet - emerges in 2024 after 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, they now stand on the brink of something familiar yet entirely new: a Swim Deep record that confidently enters into experienced territory that you simply cannot claim when you're in your twenties. It's an album rooted in the changes Ozzy faced head-on as he turned 30: getting married; becoming a father; even losing loved ones. But it's also indebted to the more gradual revelations that only come with aging and truly sitting with yourself.
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From the Other Stage at Glastonbury to an American tour supporting The 1975 Swim Deep took a well-deserved break in 2017. Having played all the cities they’d once only mythologised in teenage lyrics they returned to their respective homes and took stock of their career thus far. In the years that followed they lived apart, grew apart and almost fell apart. Eventually, the group emerged out of the quagmire, emboldened with a collection of their most fully fledged pop songs yet. From the Rozalla-interpolating spoken word of ‘To Feel Good’ and ‘90s house piano jaunt of ‘World I Share’ to the plastic cup throwing krautrock euphoria of ‘Sail Away, Say Goodbye’, Swim Deep still sound high on their original supply of positivity, with an undertone of crushing reality seeping through for the first time.
“The album’s called Emerald Classics.” Austin says. “There’s a pub in Birmingham called the Emerald, where Cav basically grew up. It’s a classic Irish pub. There’s a jukebox in the corner, and everyone knows each other by their first name. It’s fitting that the album’s spiritual home is a local boozer, with much of its genesis punctuated by pints the band look back on as pivotal.
They may no longer be the cherubic boyband photographed holding flowers on the cover of their 2013 début, but have they grown up? “Grown up’s quite a loaded word...” Austin laughs.
Emerald Classics, an album for dreamers and pub jukeboxes, has been sanctioned for release by The Pop Committee on 4th October.
Read More“The album’s called Emerald Classics.” Austin says. “There’s a pub in Birmingham called the Emerald, where Cav basically grew up. It’s a classic Irish pub. There’s a jukebox in the corner, and everyone knows each other by their first name. It’s fitting that the album’s spiritual home is a local boozer, with much of its genesis punctuated by pints the band look back on as pivotal.
They may no longer be the cherubic boyband photographed holding flowers on the cover of their 2013 début, but have they grown up? “Grown up’s quite a loaded word...” Austin laughs.
Emerald Classics, an album for dreamers and pub jukeboxes, has been sanctioned for release by The Pop Committee on 4th October.
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