Fall Into the Sun

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After releasing two beloved full-lengths, 2012s Swearin and 2013s Surfing Strange, the Philadelphia band Swearin quietly put things on hold. It was due, at least in part, to the bands main songwriters, Allison Crutchfield and Kyle Gilbride, ending their romantic relationship. But when the band found themselves in a room again years later, the conversation turned back to Swearin. Without any hesitation or inhibitions, said Crutchfield, we asked, What would it take from each of us? What would we want to accomplish if we decided to be a band again? They realized that what they all wanted was to not just play shows, but to make a new record. They wanted to do something that reflected the people theyd become during those intervening years. Before long, Crutchfield and Gilbride had a new batch of Swearin songs, ones that meshed with the sound theyd originally developed together but boldly pushed things forward. Fall into the Sun is a Swearin record that doesnt try to obscure the passage of time but instead embraces it. Getting older, your tastes change, and what you want to do changes, said Bolt. That can be seen in songs like Big Change, where Crutchfield says goodbye to Philly and the scene that she came up in, or in Dogpile, where Gilbride offers the line any aging punk can relate to: By pure dumb luck Ive gotten where Im going. There was a lot on our minds, and it was a super fertile time to put a bunch of songs together, said Gilbride. Its true of the material found on Fall into the Sun, but its noticeable in the albums production, too. Much like the bands previous albums, Gilbride anchored the recording and producing of the record, but this time around, the band worked to make the process feel more collaborative than ever before. I feel like this was the first time I could look at a Swearin record and say that I co-produced it, and that felt really good, said Crutchfield. Listening to Fall into the Sun, Swearin is a more confident, collaborative version than the one people first came to know. Crutchfield and Gilbride always had an innate ability to mirror the others movements in songs, but here, they build a focused lyrical perspective across their songs, one thats thankful for their past, but looks boldly toward the future.