Another review, another band from Birmingham; the city to
the north that seems to bleed out quality band after quality band making the
rest of the country seem lazy by comparison. Today’s review is from alternative
indie rock band Swim Deep with King City, taken from their debut album ‘Where
in Heaven are we’ and re-released from 2012.
To begin with let’s state that before hearing this track I’d
never listened to anything by the band, I’d heard about them but never their
music; cue kicking one’s self for missing out on what could be one of the best
finds of their year. The song has an otherworldly and dreamlike tone and sound;
the inclusion of having the entire band as backing singers really adds to this
and makes it something totally unique, building a haunting sound and delivering
atmosphere to the music in heaps.
The lyricism of the
piece is another thing to be marvelled, the overall theme being pretending and
living in your own ‘King City’, with the main vocalist, Austin Williams
informing the listener he wants to pretend he’s in a relationship with Warpaint’s
bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg.
“Fuck your romance, I wanna pretend that Jenny Lee Lindberg
is my girlfriend”
With the sheer quality the band displays with this track you
can see the massive amount of passion and enthusiasm the they have for the
music they’re producing; couple this up with the massive interest surrounding
them and you can safely assume they’re going to be around for a long time to
come. This is a well-executed and gracefully performed piece from one of
tomorrows biggest acts.
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