Stream: SWIMM, ‘Belly’

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SWIMM, live at July's Chinatown Summer Nights (Photo by Michelle Shiers)
SWIMM, live at July's Chinatown Summer Nights (Photo by Michelle Shiers)

SWIMM, the band built around Florida transplants Chris Hess and Adam Winn, are proving hard to pigeonhole. With their “Feel” EP and its re-release as they moved west, and then with singles such as “Beverly Hells” (“Will I be in town / when hell swallows Beverly Hills”), SWIMM showed a penchant for psych-rock with some meat on its bones. In other words, they’re never so spaced-out that they lose the plot, or suffocate the messages in their songs. (Plus, they’ve backed up their releases with viciously good live shows.) The duo’s new single “Belly” is a different shade, an angst-y rocker with one foot in the ’90s and the other in a beer-drenched L.A. warehouse show. It’ll appear on SWIMM’s “Beverly Hells” EP, which comes out Aug. 28.

||| Stream: “Belly”

||| Live: SWIMM plays Aug. 11 in at the Townhouse, Aug. 14 at Echo Park Rising and Sept. 11 at the Echo.

||| Previously: Live at Chinatown Summer Nights, “All the Time,” “Beverly Hells”