SWIM TEAM- S/T LP

Cincinnati, Ohio’s Swim Team are vacillators who will gush about the Yeah Yeah Yeahs before spilling their beer on you and asking someone to put on KISS. Candidly unapologetic, Swim Team creates deranged earworms that draw you in and spit you out. Beginning as a love-struck duo between Lillian Currens and John Hoffman, the project quickly outgrew itself to become a blown out four-piece, enlisting an aggressive rhythm section with similar roots in the DIY scene at the heart of their Northside neighborhood. Their self-titled debut album (initially released on cassette by Infinity Cat Recordings, now on vinyl by Let’s Pretend Records) breezes through 12 self-recorded, brash and intimate songs that explore complex relationships, embrace vice, and spurn the attention of “idiots.” In under 30 minutes, Swim Team takes listeners on a dynamic ride where the softest tracks feel like welcome breathers in a blitz of unadorned insight and restless thrash pop. 500 records pressed in all. 200 on clear vinyl with pink splatter and 300 pressed on black vinyl.