Swim Deep share new single ‘Very Heaven’, out now on Submarine Cat Records
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Taken from the forthcoming album ‘There’s A Big Star Outside’
Produced by Bill Ryder-Jones
UK and EU tour dates
Swim Deep have today released the new single ‘Very Heaven’ via Submarine Cat Records. It’s the third single from the upcoming new album ‘There’s A Big Star Outside’, following ‘How Many Love Songs Have Died In Vegas?’ and ‘First Song’. The album has been produced by Bill Ryder-Jones.
‘Very Heaven’ is a swooning epic. A track that represents the emotional centre of the new album, it’s a dreamy, string-drenched tune that is deeply melodic and captures the essence of the creatively-refreshed Swim Deep. The song comes with a universal message yet with an intimacy that runs throughout that makes this one of the highlights of ‘There’s A Big Star Outside’.
Frontman Austin Williams talks about the track –
“During one windy night in West Kirby, me and Bill (Ryder-Jones) sat in his local as the sideways rain stabbed our cheeks. We talked tipsily and candidly about everything from our Everton and Birmingham city woes, to the very reason we thought we made music in the first place, and opened up about what fated times dictated the melodies and lyrics that came out. We swapped ideas and voice notes and he modestly showed me one which was the chorus of ‘Very Heaven’, to which I instantly thought was the greatest thing I’d ever heard. I couldn’t wait to get back to my hotel so I could listen to it on repeat and pine about the song it could become. A song title taken from a William Wordsworth poem “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven!”. Recording this song with the band at ICP was the highlight of the time there. A huge moment for us as a band.”
‘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. Pre-save the album here.
‘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 will be on tour in the UK around album release and then play a handful of EU dates in September. They have been announced for the SON Estrella Galicia Festival in Brighton and Reeperbahn in Hamburg. All dates are below –
May –
Wed 15 – Brighton The Prince Albert – SON Estrella Galicia
June –
Tue 4 – Manchester Deaf Institute
Weds 5 – Nottingham Bodega
Thurs 6 – Birmingham Hare
Fri 7 – Bristol Rough Trade
Sat 8 – Blackpool Bootleg Social
Tue 11 – Southampton Papillon
Weds 12 – Oxford Bullingdon
Thurs 13 – London VU
Fri 14 – Leeds Key Club
Sat 15 – Newcastle Think Tank
Sun 16 – Edinburgh Mash House
Swim Deep are –
Austin Williams
Cavan McCarthy
James Balmont
Robbie Wood
Thomas Fiquet
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My life is a soundtrack, i track my life through music, photography is my passion, my escape, my expression. Without both i have pieces missing, thankfully i’m blessed and get to combine both.
Born in Manchester, lived in Australia for 22 years where i was heavily involved in the Australian Music Industry, firstly in bands (Singer) and then managing bands (all original), I moved back to the UK, Wales specifically 10 years ago
