“Who are The Swimmers?” you ask. Why, The Swimmers [MySpace] are a lovely band from Philadelphia that features a husband and wife duo (Steve and Krista Yutzy-Burkey) alongside Rick Sieber and Scott French, who I can’t say aren’t dating, but if they were there’s nothing wrong about that. Their latest record, People Are [...]
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photo by Jenna Stoltzfus Stamm installation by Janell OlahThis week Philadelphia quartet The Swimmers release their second record, entitled "People Are Soft" on Mad Dragon Records. If you liked 2007's Fighting Trees, then you will love this record. I say that because what I loved about FT was primarily the songwriting of Steve Yutzy-Burkey, which is just as Eels-Depeche-Mode-love-child as bef...
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Philadelphia's The Swimmers came a round about way to the forthcoming release of their sophomore album People Are Soft. The band took a long break after their debut album and re-grouped with renewed vigour to put this record (out November 3rd) together.The Swimmers lean heavily on an alternative path blazed in the early part of the decade by the likes of The Killers, and more recently by
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The Swimmers, out of Philadelphia, make the kind of raffish, stylish pop that hit its zenith with the Move, with straight up, banging keyboard riffs, wry, self-aware lyrics and the occasional eruption of abrasive guitar. This track describes the town where the songwriter grew up...nice place, it sounds like. He calls it (the song and the town) "Heaven." Just an observation. If I wrote a song...
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Philadelphia's The Swimmers came a round about way to the forthcoming release of their sophomore album People Are Soft. The band took a long break after their debut album and re-grouped with renewed vigour to put this record (out November 3rd) together.The Swimmers lean heavily on an alternative path blazed in the early part of the decade by the likes of The Killers, and more recently by
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photo by Jenna Stoltzfus Stamm installation by Janell OlahThis week Philadelphia quartet The Swimmers release their second record, entitled "People Are Soft" on Mad Dragon Records. If you liked 2007's Fighting Trees, then you will love this record. I say that because what I loved about FT was primarily the songwriting of Steve Yutzy-Burkey, which is just as Eels-Depeche-Mode-love-child as bef...
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Here is some video from The Swimmers' show at Piano's on Saturday night.
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“Who are The Swimmers?” you ask. Why, The Swimmers [MySpace] are a lovely band from Philadelphia that features a husband and wife duo (Steve and Krista Yutzy-Burkey) alongside Rick Sieber and Scott French, who I can’t say aren’t dating, but if they were there’s nothing wrong about that. Their latest record, People Are [...]
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| 1 It's Time They Knew |
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| 2 Heaven |
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| 3 We Love to Build |
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| 4 Miles from Our Fears |
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| 5 Home |
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