Ears Wide Open: SWIMM

Kevin Bronson on February 26th, 2015

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Florida natives Chris Hess and Adam Winn — making music as SWIMM — have been making waves since they forsook their home state for Los Angeles, playing club shows, DIY events, galleries and basically anywhere they can add a little color to the room. Last August, they retooled 2013’s “Feel” EP into a deluxe edition, with bonus tracks and remixes, for an album-quality experience that reveals their broad range of influences. SWIMM is part ambient folk, part shambling psychedelia and part dance party, an odd mix that relies on sparkling guitars, willowy melodies and echo-laden vocals. Which is not quite the drenched-in-’60s nostalgia that might suggest. SWIMM this week unveiled the new single “Beverly Hells,” a propulsive, atmospheric number with a confrontational, slightly Dylanesque lyrical bent. A full-length album is in the works.

||| Download: “Beverly Hells”