In case you detect a way of finality in Swoll’s newest single, there’s a very good motive. “The lyrics for ‘The Wind At Evening’ had been the final lyrics I wrote for the album,” says Matt Dowling, who composed and tracked the track at Alex Tebeleff’s Altadena, Calif., studio in November of final 12 months. “A pair months later, the entire neighborhood burned down.”
Swoll started in 2018 as a collaboration between Dowling and Blight. Data’ Ben Schurr (Br’er, Luna Honey). The multi-textured, synth-heavy Swoll celebrated such apparent influences as Kraftwerk and Shudder To Assume whereas sprinkling in components of post-punk, new wave and entice (hip hop’s Southern-bred subgenre). Over the previous seven years, Dowling’s Baltimore-based challenge has developed from an in-house concern into an immersive multisensory reside expertise with the addition of multi-instrumentalist Erik Sleight and lighting designer Zak Forrest. A bicoastal affair, the brand new Keep away from Connect (Blight.) was largely recorded by Schurr and Dan Angel in Philadelphia and combined by Tebeleff in Southern California.
Lately, Tebeleff and his younger household are rebuilding their lives, and Dowling is left to ponder how “The Wind At Evening” could have a deeper that means.
“I’m questioning if some cosmic clairvoyant pressure was channeling by way of me,” he says. “Had I talked in regards to the lyrics the day after I wrote them, I’d’ve mentioned one thing boring and generic like, ‘It’s a track about how life can change shortly, and you must form of embrace that and roll with it.’ Immediately, my reply is, ‘The track is about life’s Altadena occasions that hit us like a brick by way of the window—and the way even when your world is turned the wrong way up, these occasions make you, for higher or for worse.’”
We’re proud to premiere Swoll’s “The Wind At Evening.” Search for Keep away from Connect September 26.
—Hobart Rowland
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