Home Time by Swim Team

Home Time was conceived over the course of two years. Fragments of key songwriters Sammy and Krystal’s lives filtered through into their songs, over time these loose threads began to fit together to form a multi-coloured tapestry that became the album. Thematically, Home Time lusts for change and despairs over the lack of it. Many songs provide a window into a relationship: broken, beginning or ending. "Time and Sacrifice" is an exploration of helplessness while "Work Out Right" revels in the blossoming of unexpected love. Title track, "Home Time", captures the lonesome echos of a dysfunctional relationship whilst "Navigating Change" details the disintegration of one. The last two years have been rife with challenging moments; break ups, love, death and grief. All the big things that shake you out of your cosy bubble of routine. Like snippets of diary entries, they are personal songs but give little detail to the who, what or where; instead they are firmly grounded in emotion and the subjective.

But it’s not all serious and sombre, and that has been the strength of Swim Team, not just thematically in their music but in their approach. Whilst their worlds changed and chopped like a tumultuous sea there was always an air of irreverence instilled in the band that saw them writing sardonic, self deprecating songs as well as sunny throwaway pop, amidst the serious numbers. Life might be dealing you a difficult hand but sometimes that needs to be offset by writing some music that’s lean on the earnestness, cue "Everyday Things" and "New Year".

Recorded at Audrey Studios in 2018. Engineered, produced and mixed by Anna Laverty.

Reviews of Home Time.....

"Like a ‘60s’ girl group that’s somehow cosmically misplaced in time” – 4ZZZ FM

“They have an altogether original vibe that is created from tried and tested musical formulas” – Janglepop Hub

“The raspy vocals [Forever and Ever]” are weighted with so much emotion, it would take a heart of stone not to be swept away. “ Bandcamp Daily

"['Everyday Things' is] a really ripper track, and with a full album yet to come, consider this the perfect time to introduce yourself to a band bound to become one of our most exciting." - Pilerats