The Swimmers
People Are Soft
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AMG Review of People Are Soft
Richie Unterberger
All Music GuideThe Swimmers touch a bunch of bases on the slightly alternative pop/rock map on their second album, People Are Soft. "Shelter" almost sounds like a more benign and poppy Joy Division, but it's not too typical of their sound, though some of the other tracks tend toward the slightly somber and synth-oriented. But their sound also takes in fuzzy grunge-cum-power pop ("Drug Party"), wistful dreamy ruminating ("What This World Is Coming To"), and some occasional rises to more memorable enigmatic moodiness, like "Dresses Don't Fit." Overall it's less indebted to '60s and '70s rock than their debut, Fighting Trees, though it's not necessarily an improvement.
The Swimmers: "People Are Soft" (album review)
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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: "People Are Soft" (album review)
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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 Think People Are Soft
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Track:A Hundred Hearts
“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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The Swimmers - “People Are Soft” - Borrow It
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Smart lyrics, varied beats, and terrific dynamics fill up most of this album, but the rest falls flat with cliché decisions made by the band. It’s true the album never leaves you in a rut, but it also feels like they’re trying to mimic everything ‘80s music already offered us.Reminds us of: Arcade Fire | nothing very original | The KillersThe Swimmers: (Official / Myspace)the swimmers peopl
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The Swimmers :: People Are Soft
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Track:What is this World Coming To
Sounds Like: thankfully, the music overshadows the cover artRIYL: Phoenix, New Order, The Strokes, Franz FerdinandA Few Words: I took one look at their cover art and very nearly wrote off The Swimmers altogether. It seemed like it would be an album full of derivative synth pop tunes that bounce from cliche-laden verse to chorus and back again. Yet into the player it went. Considering my patienc...
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Living In Your Dreams
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Track:What the World Is Coming To
There isn't much that I don't not like (oops triple negative again) about this video for the song What The World Is Coming To by The Swimmers. It might just be because I've been doing a little re-decorating and the colors/paint, vines and tile in the apartment where the video is filmed are divine and inspiring. Was the whole thing just a dream or just another case of someone having just watche..
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