Swim Deep - Mothers
Album Review
One Great Song And I Could Change The World opens Swim Deep's second venture, introducing us to their new, re-imagined selves, followed by To My Brother still sounds as fresh as it did upon first release last March.
The singles sound as good as ever on the album, but they aren't the only standout tracks.Third track, Green Conduit softens things up slightly and slows down the pace before hitting a thumping chorus and an ending of pure distorted pandemonium, reinstating that the indie pop days are over for Swim Deep, just in case there was any doubt.
Forever Spacemen is definitely on the more out there side of things - drifting and melodious, it gives off a certain sci-fi vibe that works in its favour. Namaste is really the only song that yearns back slightly to Swim Deep's previous sound but doesn't hold the album back, instead adding a more pop-y relief between the distortion and meandering ways of Heavenly Moment and Is There Anybody Out There.
Fuehio Boogie closes the album on an uplifting eight minute sprawl of frantic and dreamy sounds, bringing to an end what is undoubtedly a far more solid effort than Swim Deep's first album, Where The Heaven Are We, back in 2013. While the album does have some slightly weaker moments, the overall impression is a seriously favourable one, and shows a more grown up and evolved Swim Deep
9/10
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