Warm and alluring soundscapes dashed with Swedish melancholy, the contrasts of intimacy and distance are depicted through a strumming bass enriched by playful, melodic synths and frontwoman Erika’s heavy-hearted vocals. Malmö based duo Swim are today sharing ‘Lying To You’ – the second track to be lifted from debut EP ‘Next To Me’ – out 11th December via With Love Recordings.

Stream ‘Lying To You’ below.

Speaking on the new track, singer Erika Rosen said: “Lying To You is about love. It is actually about love when it is only existing in a galloping mind. How you’ve tried to love someone who can’t receive your love, and how it turns your love into nothing but lies.”

The story of swedish duo Swim began online. A producer’s desire to meet a compatible voice and songwriter, landed in an exchange of ideas and music between Erika and Carl. After years of touring, record producing and songwriting with various other projects, the two musicians channelled their experiences into incipient ideas and visions that were exchanged online. A year passed without a meeting between the two, but all along the music was being created and Swim was coming to life.

Erika and Carl have conspired to create music for late evenings, precious moments of solitude, drives along the seaside and the last throbbing hour on the dance floor. The lyrics divulge compelling and direct encounters with people, travel, sex, lies and pulsating love. Swim’s dreamy and accessible sound is reinvented and given new dimensions through their dark, even intimidating, aesthetics. Light and dark are wielded not as opposites, but as two sides of the same thing. With a dark visual expression, Erika and Carl have created a project that desires to be discovered and rediscovered again and again.

Swim’s debut EP ’Next To Me’ is out December 11th via With Love Recordings / HMWL.

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Swim are: Erika Rosén & Carl Nordström

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