Swim

Swim or SWIM may refer to:

Movement and sport

SWIM

Music

Swim (Caribou album)

Swim is an album by Caribou, released in April 2010. It was his first album featuring new material since the 2008 Polaris Music Prize-winning Andorra. It featured great changes in comparison to its predecessor, deviating from the psychedelic pop sound and taking more influences from various kinds of electronic dance music, especially deep house and minimal techno.

Dan Snaith, the creative force behind Caribou, said that playing more DJ gigs, such as those at London's Plastic People, influenced him to embrace dance music and a greater range of frequencies in his music. It was songs written for these DJ sets which ultimately came to comprise Swim, though Snaith never originally intended for them to find their way into a Caribou album. Snaith says his work ethic on this album led to about 700 leftover songs, some unfinished, which did not make the album; Swim was, according to Snaith "pretty much me getting up every day and wanting to work on music. Working constantly on it. Making loads and loads and loads of music and then just sifting through to find the bits that I like".

Swim (Emily's Army EP)

Swim is the fourth EP by the American rock band Emily's Army, released on July 22, 2014, through Burger Records and Rise Records. The album is the bands first release on Burger Records and last on Rise Records. The Album was produced by Drummer Joey Armstrong's father, Billie Joe Armstrong. It is the bands last release under their former name "Emily's Army" after changing their name to "Swimmers" in late 2014, and later "Swmrs" in late 2015 It is also the last record to feature lead guitarist Travis Neumann and last to feature Max on bass before switching to lead guitar.

Background

This is the first music of the bands to feature their "beach pop" and "power pop" sound. Lead Guitarist Travis Neumann left after the recording of the EP but was featured in the music video for "Aliens Landing". The album was once again produced by Joey Armstrong's father, Billie Joe Armstrong. The album is mixed by Chris Dugan and mastered by Chris Mathers and Matthew Voelker. The band toured in summer 2014 with Rise Against in support of the EP.

Swim (song)

"Swim" is a song by the Alternative rock band Fishbone from their album Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe. The song is in a heavy metal style and was written by guitarist John Bigham.

Release and reception

Although the song did not chart in the US, it was included in the film Last Action Hero, the soundtrack of which reached number 7 on the billboard charts. It also had some minor success in the UK, where it peaked at number 54.

Music video

The music video of the song was directed by Rusty Cundieff and features the band performing in swimming gear in front of a crowd frolicking in a pool.

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Swim (EP)

Swim was the second EP by the British alternative rock band Feeder. It was Feeder's second commercial release, but failed to have much success.

The EP had influences of Smashing Pumpkins early work along with Nirvana, Manic Street Preachers and Silverchair that followed on Polythene.

Release

The 6-track EP was released on 24 June 1996 on The Echo Label and later released in CD-format on 12 October 1998. Swim was re-released with seven additional tracks on 30 July 2001. The songs "Stereo World" and "Descend" appeared on the band's debut album Polythene.

After Feeder broke into the mainstream with their single "Buck Rogers" and the Echo Park album, Swim was re-released, with five B-sides from the Polythene singles and two videos. The only difference between the original Swim artwork and the re-release is the colour of the backgrounds; blue for the original and red for the re-release.

In late 2006, to coincide with the tour of Japan tour in October, the album had its first release outside Europe.

Swim (July for Kings album)

Swim is the major-label debut album by the Ohio-based rock band July for Kings. The track "Normal Life" is noted as the band's most popular track on the album.

Track listing

Personnel

Joe Hedges - Lead vocals, guitar
Travis Delaney - Guitar
T. Miller - Guitar, cello
Jason Morgan - Bass guitar
Sam Dobrozsi - Drums