mothers

Dot To Dot Festival landed in Nottingham on Sunday 26th May for the last leg of the festival, having been to Manchester and Bristol for the May Bank Holiday. Since I reviewed the festival last year and was blown away, I had high expectations for the day ahead, and...

Second albums are notoriously difficult to make, it’s a fact. Bands have to navigate their way around musical potholes and clichés to come up with something new. Following Swim Deep’s first album (Where the Heaven Are We), it would be easy for them to continue in the same vein...

Promoting the release of their second LP, Mothers, Swim Deep treated the bar at Rough Trade in Hockley to a brief and intimate set of new tracks from the album, as well as a few old favourites from Where The Heaven Are We. Building on a foundation of catchy,...