Alt Psych-Rock Band Meltt Commemorates 5 Years of Debut Album With Swim Slowly – Expanded Edition
October 25, 2024 BY Emma Orland
Today, alternative psych-rock band Meltt is proud to share the expanded edition of their debut album Swim Slowly, commemorating five years since its initial release. The album includes the 12 songs off the original release, a stripped rendition of their fan-favorite song “Love Again”, 5 live versions of songs from the album, and the groovy new b-side single, “Paintings of the Past”. Listen HERE.
“Swim Slowly was our first full length album that came at such a formative and significant time in our lives, both personally and as musicians. It’s a fundamental piece of Meltt’s story that has introduced us to so many wonderful fans and sparked a whole new world of possibilities for us in music,” reflects Meltt.
Swim Slowly – Expanded Edition Tracklisting:
Disc 1
- On Your Own
- Too Much Tension
- Deeper Water
- Feel the Same
- Wash Over Me
- We’ll See
- S.O.S.
- Love Again
- Flow
- Footprints of the Sun
- Photogénie
- Moths in the Darkness
Disc 2
- Paintings of the Past (B-Side)
- Love Again (Stripped)
- On Your Own (Live)
- Wash Over Me (Live)
- Footprints of the Sun (Live)
- We’ll See (Live)
- Deeper Water (Live)
The Vancouver band comprised of Chris Smith [lead vocals, guitar, bass, keys], Jamie Turner [drums, percussion], James Porter [guitar, keys, bass, vocals] and Ian Winkler [bass, keys, guitar] enable rock, alternative and psychedelia to coexist in one ecosystem with airtight instrumentation and deft songcraft. This yielded their Visions EP and their Swim Slowly LP. Then, throughout the pandemic, the band wrote what would become Eternal Embers in sessions, formulating ideas separately. Eventually, they spent a month in a remote cabin where they wrote and shored up the foundation of the record. They shared five tracks as part of the 2023 Another Quiet Sunday EP that would only contribute to a larger statement on the new LP Eternal Embers. The band’s second full-length continues to showcase the airtight psychedelic ethereal instrumentation with themes of growth, decay, rebirth and grief. Listen to Eternal Embers HERE.
