Swapmeet Announce Debut Album ‘Mount Zero’
Rising alternative rock outfit Swapmeet are elated to share the news of their debut album, Mount Zero out July 17 via Winspear (Slow Pulp, Winter, Wishy). Marking the news is their latest offering Sand, complete with a new music video. PRE-SAVE LP HERE + PRE-ORDER VINLY HERE.
Sand boils with the passage of time, from the monotonous to the squandered – “there’s nothing more to life than breaking what is bad.” Reflective of the group’s shared multi-instrumental approach, Sand is dually voiced by Jack Medlyn and Venus O’Broin. Their hushed lament over soft guitars and subtle MIDI showcases Swapmeet’s more delicate musical edges, adding new layers to the group’s charm – a contrast to the grunge-fuelled call and response of their breakout single I Know!.
Swapmeet share “Sand is about wasting your own time, then being so, so mad at yourself. And a little bit mad at the people who make apps and phones so addictive.” Visually, Sand recaps the band’s recent travels across America, with a playful poking of the tongue to the rite of passage in looking out the car window in a music video. Directed by David Milan Kelly, the video reflects on the omnipresent experience of inertia in the midst of profound change.
wapmeet’s forthcoming debut marks the moment the four piece come into their own with a sweeping, guitar-driven road trip that recalls and reinvigorates their genre heroes. Mingling airy sweetness with jagged surrealism, Mount Zero transmutes so many of the regrets and uncertainties of young adulthood into a burgeoning, newfound confidence. Though the members often begin writing their songs individually, the tracks on the album circle common themes: first loves, first heartbreaks, first embarrassments, first disasters.
As they’ve done since their earliest days as a band, Swapmeet trade instruments throughout Mount Zero, as on display with today’s Sand. Sharing production duties as a foursome in collaboration with Armlock’s Hamish Mitchell, developing their sound by layering dozens (sometimes hundreds) of tracks within each song, together they carefully removed elements until production took a clear shape. The result is a record where Swapmeet bottle up the tooth-gritting intensity of feeling yourself change at the cellular level under reality’s unyielding pressures. Observational and anecdotal, it’s a tribute to all the lives that can never be lived, all the paths that will never be followed–and an ode to the one that lies just ahead, too.
This past March, Swapmeet took the world by storm with their latest single I Know!, applauded across Billboard, Rolling Stone, The Line Of Best Fit, NME, Stereogum, CLASH, So Young, Northern Transmissions and more. Culminating in a coveted Artist You Need To Know feature with Rolling Stone, Feature Artist placement on triple j Unearthed, spot rotation on triple j and community radio AMRAP charting on debut at #2 nationally and #1 on Rock/Metal, the group has captured lightning in a bottle. Their first Australian performances since their massive 13 showcase run at SXSW Austin take place next month – your chance to experience a preview of Mount Zero before its release this July.
SWAPMEET
Mount Zero LP
July 17 via Winspear
PRE-SAVE HERE + PRE-ORDER VINYL HERE
TRACKLIST
I Know!
Mount Zero
Bonny
Halfway
2 C U
Seeds
Sand
Personal (Don’t Take It)
My Heart Breaks II
TOUR DATES
Fri 8 May – The Lord Gladstone – Eora / Sydney
Sat 9 May – New Found Sound – tarntanya / Adelaide
Thu 11 Jun – Phoenix Central Park – Eora / Sydney
Sat 20 Jun – Against The Grain Festival – Magadjin / Brisbane
Tickets available at swapmeetband.com