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- Summary: The third full-length release for the British indie rock band is its first with Thomas Fiquet and Robbie Wood, who replaced the departing founding members Higgy and Zack Robinson.
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- Record Label: Cooking Vinyl
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Oct 4, 2019From their dream-pop origins, through their psychedelic sophomore, they have arrived at a spiritual revolution with Emerald Classics. It's a development to be proud of, to feel good about.
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Oct 4, 2019A wide-eyed, serotonin rush of an album that will make you eternally grateful for Swim Deep’s perseverance.
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Oct 4, 2019At times, you yearn for a little more grit among all the blissed-out euphoria, but ultimately the hooks are big enough to sink in and take hold.
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Oct 4, 2019Heavily indebted to ‘90s indie pop but never boringly reverential - it’s the sound of a band mining the past into a vibrant future.
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Oct 4, 2019Similarly to how grungy Gen-Xers both co-opted and rejected the music and aesthetics of their boomer parents, on Emerald Classics Swim Deep conversely embrace and slough off the remaining dust of '90s Brit-pop nostalgia. They may have been inspired by the music that was at its peak around the time they were born, but they aren't going to drown in its wake.
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Q MagazineOct 22, 2019Sadly much of this record is stuck in the shallows. [Dec 2019, p.114]
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