Swim

After drawing from IDM, krautrock, and sunshine pop, Dan Snaith's project sets its sights on dark and intricate dance music, with dazzling results.

Dan Snaith kicked off his career 10 years ago with soothingly downbeat electronica—the kind of stuff that got labeled as IDM when IDM still seemed like a useful label—but then voyaged far and wide, putting out albums of maximalist psychedelia (Up In Flames), brittle kraut (The Milk Of Human Kindness) and summer-y ’60s…

Swim to the surface

Has somebody slipped the folktronica community a mickey?

Swim’s songs are fully evocative of the stylistic struggles that the band has come to represent.

Swim is an itchy, gurgling, shapeshifter of an album, writes <strong>Maddy Costa</strong>

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