Night Swimming (EP)
Night Swimming is the first EP released by the New Zealand band, Young Lyre, released on 9 November 2012. The EP reached the number fifteen on the Official New Zealand Music Chart one week after its release.
Background
The band started creating music in the college competing on Rockquest in New Zealand. After changing the band name from "Sons of Darragh" to "Oresund" to "The Frisk", they decided to settle on the name of "Young Lyre" in 2011. Featuring songs of their fisrt years, the EP Night Swimming was officially released on 9 November 2012. One week after its release, the EP was the number fifteen on the Official New Zealand Music Chart.
Singles
The first single and music video from the EP was "Make Light", released on 15 March 2012 and directed by Jordan Dodson.
Track listing
Personnel
Young Lyre
Nightswimming
"Nightswimming" is a song by the American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was released in 1993 as the fifth single from the group's eighth album Automatic for the People (1992). "Nightswimming" is a ballad featuring singer Michael Stipe accompanied only by bassist Mike Mills on piano, a string arrangement by former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, and a prominent oboe by Deborah Workman in the latter part of the piece. Stipe sings about a group of friends who go skinny dipping at night, which draws from similar experiences in the band's early days.
Background and recording
Bassist Mike Mills recalled he was playing a piano riff at John Keane's studio in the band's hometown of Athens, Georgia. While Mills almost discarded the melody, it attracted the interest of singer Michael Stipe. Mills said, "I never thought it would amount to much because it was just a circular thing that kept going round and round and round. But it inspired Michael." While the song was not included on Out of Time, the demo recorded during those sessions was used for Automatic for the People, with a string arrangement by John Paul Jones added to the track. Mills has also claimed he recorded the piano part at Criteria Studios in Miami, on the same piano used by Derek and the Dominos on the recording of "Layla".
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