Andrew Swift - The Art of Letting Go '2021

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Finding improbable beauty in the more difficult aspects of love –
transcendent moments of bliss giving way to overwhelming confusion,
disappointment, and loss – two-time Golden Guitar-winning songsmith
Andrew Swift delivers a stunning document of heartache with expansive sophomore
album The Art of Letting Go.

Produced by the inimitable Matt Fell (Sara Storer, Shane Nicholson, Fanny
Lumsden), The Art of Letting Go found Swift partnering with a host of
songwriting luminaries, from the Wolfe Brothers, to Phil Barton (Lee Brice, Eli
Young Band), Sinead Burgess, Jay O’Shea, Margaret Valentine, Brian Maher
(Taylor Swift), and Kevin Mac (George Jones, Zac Brown Band).

Joining Swift on the album was a host of stellar players drawn from both
Australia and Nashville: Josh Schuberth (Josh Pyke) on drums, Matt Fell, Ollie
Thorpe on guitar, Tim Crouch (Alan Jackson, Jim Lauderdale) on fiddle, mandolin,
and banjo; Rob McNelly (Miranda Lambert) on lead guitar, Sam Hawksley (Adam
Brand), Pete Cornelius, Dan Biederman (Adam Eckersley Band), Andy Schrav, and
Will Kimbrough (Emmylou Harris) on mandolin.

The Art of Letting Go finds Swift deploying an array of rich sonic textures,
building on and expanding the sounds that made incomparable debut Call Out for
the Cavalry a breakout success.

The Art of Letting Go finds Andrew Swift at the peak of his powers. Showcasing
the singer’s soaring vocal, ‘Courting Calamity’ is carried
on an updraft of swelling heartland rock guitars, as Swift courts disaster in
the arms of a dangerous yet irresistible new love. The soulful ‘Never
Meant to Break Your Heart’ charts the exquisite agony of romantic regret,
before ‘Head Full of Honey’ offers up an earthy, rollicking ode to
lovesickness peppered with mandolin and fiddle.

The beating heart of the album, title track ‘The Art of Letting Go’
is a glorious, heartworn torch song, while there’s an irresistible
locomotive country-pop jaunt in ‘Right On Down’, a delicate hymn to
the healing power of friendship in times of trouble in ‘One Breath at a
Time’, and a stoned and booze-addled waltz in the languorous ‘She
Loves to Get High’.

Glorious country-pop tune ‘Say the Word’ (Featuring Cass Hopetoun)
couples summery sounds with illicit longing, setting the stage for soulful,
slinky love song ‘Good Kind of Giving In’. ‘Taking the
Blame’ is a heartsick, world-weary sway, before Swift reflects on the
challenges of the past year in the meditative ‘Holding My Tongue’.

A powerful document of love, longing, and loss, The Art of Letting Go is Andrew
Swift at his evocative, expressive best.

Tracklist:
1 01. Andrew Swift - Introducing Calamity (00:31)
1 02. Andrew Swift - Courting Calamity (03:28)
1 03. Andrew Swift - Never Meant to Break Your Heart (03:45)
1 04. Andrew Swift - Head Full of Honey (04:03)
1 05. Andrew Swift - The Art of Letting Go (03:42)
1 06. Andrew Swift - Right on Down (02:43)
1 07. Andrew Swift - One Breath at a Time (04:19)
1 08. Andrew Swift - She Loves to Get High (03:58)
1 09. Andrew Swift - Say the Word (03:40)
1 10. Andrew Swift - Good Kind of Giving In (03:29)
1 11. Andrew Swift - Taking the Blame (03:37)
1 12. Andrew Swift - Holding My Tongue (04:02)

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