Following 2008’s Fighting Trees—The Swimmers’ first release on MAD Dragon which garnered rave reviews from The Philadelphia Inquirer, Magnet, The Tripwire and Time Out Chicago, making their Artist to Watch and Top Ten Year End Polls—Steve and Krista Yutzy-Burkey, Scott French and Rick Sieber decided to make a clean break, build a home studio from the ground up and record an album entirely themselves. The result is intensely personal songwriting couched in distorted synthesizer hooks, crushed electric guitars and swelling reverb trails. “It was a very focused and isolated time. Scott and I traded back and forth, refining and affecting the mixes…I think we all journeyed pretty deep inside ourselves during the project,” said lead singer/songwriter Steve Yutzy-Burkey.
From “Hundred Hearts”—Scott’s ode to the trials of the human heart with an insatiably catchy gang chorus—to “Drug Party”—a dream sequence of social disconnection set to overblown distorted guitar and brash snare hits—to “What This World Is Coming To”—a diffuse atmosphere alternating with quirky, pounding choruses—to the apocalyptic electro-pop of Krista’s lead vocal on “Give Me the Sun,” to “Nervous Wreck’s” triumphant chorus “sing without and hold together,” the songs are isolated and comforting, difficult and alluring, fractured and fragile…People Are Soft.
Check out the video for "What This World is Coming To"
which premiered on The Music Slut
tHe sWIMMERs: pEOPle aRe sOFt
out now on MAD Dragon records!
Listen to the entire album streaming this week on Spinner! Buy on Amazon!
Listen to "Shelter"
& "A Hundred Hearts"
TOUR DATES
Nov 6*WXPN/Y-ROCK PRESENT: SWIMMERS CD RELEASE*Philadelphia, PA
Nov 7*Main St Music*@ 1PM*Philadelphia, PA
Nov 7*Pianos*New York, NY
Nov 13*Progressive Galleries*Lancaster, PA
Nov 14*The Bog*Scranton, PA
Dec 11*DC-9*Washington DC
Dec 12*Pa’s Lounge*Boston, MA
For more information check out:
From “Hundred Hearts”—Scott’s ode to the trials of the human heart with an insatiably catchy gang chorus—to “Drug Party”—a dream sequence of social disconnection set to overblown distorted guitar and brash snare hits—to “What This World Is Coming To”—a diffuse atmosphere alternating with quirky, pounding choruses—to the apocalyptic electro-pop of Krista’s lead vocal on “Give Me the Sun,” to “Nervous Wreck’s” triumphant chorus “sing without and hold together,” the songs are isolated and comforting, difficult and alluring, fractured and fragile…People Are Soft.
Check out the video for "What This World is Coming To"
which premiered on The Music Slut
tHe sWIMMERs: pEOPle aRe sOFt
out now on MAD Dragon records!
Listen to the entire album streaming this week on Spinner! Buy on Amazon!
Listen to "Shelter"
& "A Hundred Hearts"
TOUR DATES
Nov 6*WXPN/Y-ROCK PRESENT: SWIMMERS CD RELEASE*Philadelphia, PA
Nov 7*Main St Music*@ 1PM*Philadelphia, PA
Nov 7*Pianos*New York, NY
Nov 13*Progressive Galleries*Lancaster, PA
Nov 14*The Bog*Scranton, PA
Dec 11*DC-9*Washington DC
Dec 12*Pa’s Lounge*Boston, MA
For more information check out:
