Taken from Outliers (Released: 24/03/2023), a 9-track compilation on which the band revisit and remaster eight non-album tracks, a process that has led to their first new song since 2012, Twenty Years Too Soon, Twenty Years Too Late.

https://www.biphonic.co.uk/releases/swimmer-one-outliers/

Outliers

We Just Make Music For Ourselves

Taken from Outliers (Released: 24/03/23), a 9-track compilation on which the band revisit and remaster eight non-album tracks, a process that has led to their first new song since 2012, Twenty Years Too Soon, Twenty Years Too Late.

More info: https://www.biphonic.co.uk/releases/swimmer-one-outliers/

Drums by Stu Brown https://www.stu-brown.com/

Twenty Years Too Soon, Twenty Years Too Late

Collaboration with Andrew Eaton-Lewis (vocals). A cover of Let’s Go To Bed for Pictures of You: A Compilation of Covers of Songs by The Cure, curated by God Is In The TV. 

All funds raised go to mental health charity MIND. £5000+ raised to date. Buy it here: https://godisinthetvzine.bandcamp.com/album/pictures-of-you-a-compilation-of-covers-of-songs-by-the-cure

Let's Go To Bed

Textura Review: 

While the track titles “Fragment One” and “Fragment Two” might suggest some unfinished quality, there's nothing unpolished about the material in question. On the contrary, the cuts are sleek and rousing affairs elevated by jacking house beats, rich synthesizer textures, and nocturnal splendour. Without careening out of control, the tracks work themselves up to respectively feverish, near-ecstatic states and seduce the listener with their luscious, synth-heavy arrangements and uplift.

The EP's jubilant vibe carries over to the B side with “Seberg”—a homage by Lyth to Jean Seberg, the late actress forever immortalized for her role in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (À bout de souffle)?—proving to be even more bubbly than the opening pair, especially when Lyth animates the track with a hard-grooving, infectious swing. “Every Single Word” changes things up beautifully by ending the recording on a soulful note, the tempo slightly slower than the other tracks and fragments of soulful vocalizing sprinkled across the tune's bass-throbbing pulse. Don't be thrown by the title: the EP's tracks are anything but fragmentary; if anything, they're as satisfying as anything else in the Jacksonville discography.

WE PLAY WAX review.

The seventh Inner Shift release, 'Fragments EP' kicks off with 'Fragment One', a relentless ethereal dance-floor voyage through landscapes of warm airy pads, haunting strings, spectral synths and twirling bells, all fuelled by a driving kick and hypnotic acid bass-line. The second part of the trip, 'Fragment Two' is a more relaxed, deeper and down-to-earth construction with its steady kick, rhythmic drums and straightforward looping bass-line that rarely gets a filter treatment. While the first Fragment was the hypnotic one, the second is the cosmic one with its gliding celestial organ bells, lush melodic synths and trance-inducing astral keys, all embracing one another in a truly ecstatic mating dance ritual.

The flip-side changes the rules of the game with 'Seberg', a classic deep house track that has its roots both in the Detroit scene as well as in the forming years of Belfast's own dreamy soundscape. The energy on 'Seberg' is precisely delivered through constant drum sounds, tight kicks and a lovely swingful bass-line, while the mood gets driven with the aid of smooth rich pads, melodic seascape lines and a whole layer of faded ambient soundscapes. To finish the EP in epic fashion, Chris gives us 'Every Single Word', a blissful harmony of breezy oceanic pads, grandiose synth layers and evocative vocal cuts that once let loose, they orchestrate themselves to grandiose states of aural delight. 


Fragment Two

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Let's Go To Bed

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