Home Time, by Swim Team

Home Time

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1.	Grown Up 02:48	buy track
2.	Home Time 03:14	buy track
3.	Everyday Things 02:30	buy track
4.	Forever And Ever 03:37	buy track
5.	Time And Sacrifice 03:10	buy track
6.	New Year 03:43	buy track
7.	5AM 5PM 03:30	buy track
8.	Are You Into Me? 02:43	buy track
9.	Glare 02:23	buy track
10.	Black to Blonde 02:30	buy track
11.	Navigating Change 03:23	buy track
12.	Work Out Right 03:29	buy track

about

Home Time was conceived over the course of two years. Fragments of key songwriters Sammy and Krystal’s lives filtered through into their songs, over time these loose threads began to fit together to form a multi-coloured tapestry that became the album. Thematically, Home Time lusts for change and despairs over the lack of it. Many songs provide a window into a relationship: broken, beginning or ending. "Time and Sacrifice" is an exploration of helplessness while "Work Out Right" revels in the blossoming of unexpected love. Title track, "Home Time", captures the lonesome echos of a dysfunctional relationship whilst "Navigating Change" details the disintegration of one. The last two years have been rife with challenging moments; break ups, love, death and grief. All the big things that shake you out of your cosy bubble of routine. Like snippets of diary entries, they are personal songs but give little detail to the who, what or where; instead they are firmly grounded in emotion and the subjective.

But it’s not all serious and sombre, and that has been the strength of Swim Team, not just thematically in their music but in their approach. Whilst their worlds changed and chopped like a tumultuous sea there was always an air of irreverence instilled in the band that saw them writing sardonic, self deprecating songs as well as sunny throwaway pop, amidst the serious numbers. Life might be dealing you a difficult hand but sometimes that needs to be offset by writing some music that’s lean on the earnestness, cue "Everyday Things" and "New Year".

Recorded at Audrey Studios in 2018. Engineered, produced and mixed by Anna Laverty.

Reviews of Home Time.....

"Like a ‘60s’ girl group that’s somehow cosmically misplaced in time” – 4ZZZ FM

“They have an altogether original vibe that is created from tried and tested musical formulas” – Janglepop Hub

“The raspy vocals [Forever and Ever]” are weighted with so much emotion, it would take a heart of stone not to be swept away. “ Bandcamp Daily

"['Everyday Things' is] a really ripper track, and with a full album yet to come, consider this the perfect time to introduce yourself to a band bound to become one of our most exciting." - Pilerats

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released July 12, 2019

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Swim Team Melbourne, Australia

discography

Home Time

Jul 2019
Everyday Things

Apr 2019
Split 7"

Sep 2017
Holiday EP

Jan 2017
Meek

Nov 2016

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