- 2024-08-07
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MUSIC
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Night Swimming Releases New Song “Five-Year Plan”
Bristol-based dream-pop Night Swimming, consisting of Meg Jones (vocals), Sam Allen (guitar), Jesse Roache (guitar), Josh Nottle (bass), Torin Moore (drums), released the third single called “Five-Year Plan” from their upcoming debut EP “No Place To Land” on August 6, 2024.
The song is the follow-up to “Evergreen” and “Let That Be Enough”.
The 5-track debut EP is set to be released on September 27, 2024.
The track was written by Jesse Roache, Josh Nottle, Meg Jones, Sam Allen, and Torin Moore. Produced by Peter Miles.
The band lead singer Meg Jones said of the song, “Five-Year Plan is about the feeling of being dropped suddenly, without much explanation, by someone you were really close to. The words were written quickly and without a lot of conscious thought, compared with our other songs. I think this captured the honesty of the difficult emotions I was experiencing at the time.”- She continued, “Like all of the tracks on the EP, Five-Year Plan was recorded as a live performance to analogue tape. We recorded the songs this way to give them their own energy and movement akin to our live shows. There were minimal overdubs on 'Five-Year Plan', however we did experiment with layers such as double tracked vocals/harmonies, a synth bass and even some acoustic guitar to thicken the mix.”
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She added, “In terms of the writing process, the track was started by Jesse bringing an arpeggio melody to rehearsal that he’d be working on, and it was fleshed out by the rest of the band to create the wall of sound that is heard in the recording. A few of us were coincidentally experiencing similar life events at the same time, in the middle of winter, which definitely impacted the writing process. The song switches metre from 7/8 to 4/4 which we felt provided a cathartic release to end the song.”
Photo by Ethan Porter - source : Apple Music
