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Swearin - Fall into the Sun '2018

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Fall into the Sun
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Album name Fall into the Sun
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Date 2018
GenreIndie Rock
Play time 00:33:18
Format / Bitrate 24 BIT Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
Media CD
Size 420 mb
PriceDownload $3.95
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Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Big Change
02. Dogpile
03. Grow into a Ghost
04. Margaret
05. Stabilize
06. Untitled (LA)
07. Treading
08. Oil and Water
09. Smoke or Steam
10. Anyway
11. Future Hell


Philadelphia pop-minded punks Swearin split up in 2015 when
co-leader/songwriters Allison Crutchfield and Kyle Gilbride ended their romantic
relationship, one that had been solid when they formed the band in their early
twenties. Crutchfield spent some time touring as part of her sister Katies
Waxahatchee project and released the synthy and self-reflective solo album
Tourist in This Town in early 2017. As time moved on, the ex-bandmates wounds
healed and they reconnected, reactivating Swearin with drummer Jeff Bolt to work
toward their third album and first new music in five years. Rather than picking
up where they left off with unfinished material from the time of their breakup,
they decided to start fresh. As a result, the 11 songs that make up Fall into
the Sun take on a decidedly more refined and mature feeling than anything from
the bands first wave. Themes of time, growth, change, and migration come up
repeatedly. Crutchfields move to Los Angeles from the close-knit Philly punk
scene is touched on throughout, from the epic and ruminative album opener Big
Change to Untitled (LA), an anthemic exploration of a cross-country uprooting
from the East to the West Coast. Gilbrides songs seem more focused on the ghosts
of getting older in one place, but are also approached with a weathered, wizened
perspective. Both Dogpile and Treading simmer in midtempo tension, Gilbride
looking at aimless years and restlessness with overly familiar surroundings.
Similarly, Stabilize rides a slow-burning line, calling on some of the
spaciousness that defined Crutchfields Tourist in This Town as well as recalling
the raw, on-edge pop perfection of Superchunk at their most wiry, circa Foolish.
In among the slower, more refined fare are plenty of songs that capture the
concentrated energy that Swearin started with. The bands ability to twist
seemingly straightforward pop idioms into something weird and interesting is
fully intact on bendy, upbeat jammers like Oil and Water and the tormented but
tuneful Future Hell. Making smart rock music was never a challenge for the band,
but the material here trades in the nervous hooks and urgent emotional reach of
earlier material for songs that take their time and take more risks.
Crutchfields melodic sensibilities and Gilbrides enormous punk production were
already signature sounds, but expanding on these trademarks in songs about
getting older and more experienced makes Fall into the Sun all the more
interesting and connective. Without losing any of the energetic fizz of their
youth, Swearin look honestly at their lives moving forward, arriving somewhere
vulnerable yet impressively more confident than before.

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