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Aug 6, 2013Ultimately, the golden age of dream pop and shoegaze lasted roughly ten years, a blink in the eye when it comes to pop music. However, for Swim Deep with Where in the Heaven Are We, it’s almost like it never ended.
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Jul 30, 2013Swim Deep have written a youthful, entertaining debut that it’s hard to find fault with, and they graduate from B-Town with a first class degree.
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Jul 22, 2013With many tipping these Birmingham indie sorts for success, a debut album as accomplished and hit-laden as this makes it hard to see the band faltering.
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Q MagazineJul 11, 2013It's the overall sense of joie de vivre which makes Where The Heaven Are We such a triumph. [Aug 2013, p.101]
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Jul 11, 2013Where The Heaven Are We ably showcases their innate knack for massive hooks--it’s a rock-solid debut with something for everyone.
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Aug 19, 2013Where The Heaven Are We is a solid start for B-Town’s latest export, and when considered the almost fainéant construction, there’s probably a lot more to come from this lot.
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Aug 5, 2013Although it doesn’t always hit the mark, Swim Deep’s debut proves more than capable of matching to the dizzying highs they write about.
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Jul 31, 2013While Where The Heaven Are We isn’t a perfect debut album, it’s a solid effort, and there’s enough talent on display to hint at even better things to come.
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UncutJul 11, 2013They display an exuberant charm that's trashy and infectious. [Aug 2013, p.77]
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Aug 2, 2013As it meanders towards its conclusion, the LP melds into a uniform mesh of pleasantly forgettable ditties.
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Aug 1, 2013The problem being that a voice this washed-out makes everything sound lackadaisical, rather than filled with conquer-the-world ambition.
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Jul 30, 2013The ramshackle energy and unpredictability of their live show has been sanded down into something more clinical and precise.
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MojoJul 11, 2013Lazy vocals, euphoric hooks and volleys of digital drums. [Aug 2013, p.98]
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Aug 5, 2013Too much of the rest of their material sounds like utterly unremarkable filler,