Swimming (French Kicks album)

Swimming
Studio album by
French Kicks
ReleasedMarch 31, 2008
RecordedDecember 2007 at The Saltlands, Brooklyn, NY by Alex Pasco
GenreIndie rock, post-punk revival
Length44:02
LabelVagrant Records
ProducerFrench Kicks
French Kicks chronology
Two Thousand
(2006) 		Swimming
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
BillboardFavorable[2]
The Daily MississippianFavorable[3]
IGNFavorable[4]
NylonFavorable[5]
Pitchfork Media7.6/10[6]
PopMatters[7]
Spin[8]
The Village VoiceFavorable[9]
The Washington PostFavorable[10]

Swimming is the fourth and final studio album by New York-based indie rock band French Kicks. Their first self-produced album, Swimming is more stripped down than is found on their previous albums. Explaining the recording process, guitarist Josh Wise said that the band "used a lot of first and second takes and tried to preserve a sense of immediacy and discovery that comes from putting things down before you really have a chance to think too hard."[11] It was released on March 31, 2008, receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews.[12]

Track listing

  1. "Abandon" – 3:56
  2. "Over the World" – 4:26
  3. "Carried Away" – 3:29
  4. "New Man" – 4:38
  5. "Said So What" – 4:16
  6. "Atlanta" – 4:48
  7. "Love in the Ruins" – 3:38
  8. "With the Fishes" – 3:39
  9. "The Way You Arrive" – 4:19
  10. "All Our Weekends" – 4:03
  11. "Sex Tourists" – 3:29
  12. "This Could Go Wrong" – 3:42

References

  1. ^ Swimming at AllMusic
  2. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20080517162639/http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/content_display/reviews/albums/e3i4c48acfb0da84a31528be8a798be81b3
  3. ^ http://media.www.thedmonline.com/media/storage/paper876/news/2008/06/04/ArtsLife/swimming.Offers.Garage.Rock.Poetic.Lyrics-3378324.shtml
  4. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20080529075942/http://music.ign.com/articles/876/876154p1.html
  5. ^ http://www.nylonmag.com/?section=article&parid=1375
  6. ^ https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12211-swimming/
  7. ^ http://www.popmatters.com/pm/reviews/article/58033/the-french-kicks-swimming/
  8. ^ http://spin.com/reviews/french-kicks-swimming-vagrant
  9. ^ http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0821,hypnotic-melodrama-with-a-little-help-from-their-friends,446745,22.html
  10. ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/17/AR2008041701230.html
  11. ^ Vagrant Records (April 1, 2008). "Swimming Release Details".
  12. ^ "Reviews for Swimming by French Kicks". Metacritic. Retrieved October 29, 2015.


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