11/9/2022 0 Comments I hate the walking dead theme song![]() ![]() ![]() “It’s weird, we’ve done the whole music industry thing in reverse,” he laughed. The EP will be self-released by the band, in what Williams termed “a Benjamin Button” journey through their career which saw them release their debut album ‘Where The Heaven Are We’ and its follow-up ‘Mothers’ on a major label deal at RCA, before moving to indie Cooking Vinyl for 2020’s ‘Emerald Classics’. “It can be super depressing to think about, but it also feels like quite an optimistic statement.” “You see these signs all the time, but when you see it at the right time and it starts to make so much sense to your own life,” he said. The record’s title was inspired by a sign Williams saw on a plane on the band’s first trip to Bangkok, which made him think about getting “cosy” with or accepting leaving a part of your life behind. The rest of the EP, which will be released in early 2022, features other collaborations, including Aussie indie-pop singer Hatchie, Thai band Dept – who Williams described as “shoegazey, but like The 1975 a ‘90s throwback” – and the frontman’s fiancée Nell Power. I just think her voice is so deep with emotion and she has a relatable voice that, for me, feels like a conversational atmosphere when you’re listening to her music.” “I had a writing session with her – we’d just been on tour together and she’s a good friend. ![]() “I wrote this song for her,” the Swim Deep singer and guitarist explained of how Green ended up on the track. “You’re scared of what people think and you’re scared that you could create something that you think isn’t good and then hate yourself for it – which is 90 per cent of the creative process, unfortunately.” “I’ve been writing songs for Swim Deep for 10 years now and sometimes it feels like there’s so much pressure that you put on yourself and all these filters, where you feel like you have to follow this brand that you’ve created yourself,” Williams told NME. Written during lockdown, ‘On The Floor’ began life as one of a series of “pretend pop songs” that Swim Deep frontman Austin Williams worked on in his fiancée’s garden shed in Golders Green – imagining that the song wasn’t for the band, but for someone else who helped him push through a creative block and led to a collaborative EP that will arrive next year. Check out the video below along with NME’s interview with the returning Birmingham band. Swim Deep have released their first single in two years in the Phoebe Green collaboration ‘On The Floor’. ![]()
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