Birmingham band Swim Deep have a single out, here is the B-side to their current single online.
with the recently unveiled songs ‘To My Brother’, and its flipside ‘Hotel California’ now available. ‘To My Brother’ was the first new material from the band since their 2013 debut album ‘Where The Heaven Are We’. Frontman Austin Williams recently described the band’s new music as “psychedelic sex music”, comparing the record to both Kanye West and Fleetwood Mac.
Williams revealed the big ambitions he and his bandmates have for the album. “We wanted to radicalise chart music,” he said of the band’s mindset going into the studio. “So we’ve taken [Kanye West’s] ‘Yeezus’ and [Fleetwood Mac album] ‘Rumours’ and put them together with acid house.”
The band recently played four intimate gigs in March and April. In addition to those headline gigs, Swim Deep are among the first acts confirmed for Live At Leeds 2015.