Swim Deep announce Bill Ryder-Jones produced album, There’s A Big Star Outside…

"How Many Love Songs Have Died In Vegas?" is a result of the deep self-examination frontman Austin ‘Ozzy’ Williams has undertaken in the years since the last album, Emerald Classics. The news of his impending fatherhood led him to think about his own childhood, and the broken marriage of his parents and how that affected him and his relationships today.

“‘How Many Love Songs In Vegas?’ is a song that’s been stitched together over a few years, a great melody made in a shed (like all the good ones are) that never found its song. Until Swim Deep’s Lord saviour Bill Ryder Jones insisted we persist with it as it was ‘dead good’. We tried everything, and even after going full Flaming Lips at the Wacky Warehouse on it, still, nothing felt perfect… until we sat back, drank some gin and listened to Yo La Tengo & Red House Painters. And suddenly it clicked, Bill saw the light and I followed him like I would off a cliff," he explains.

“A song I wrote after pondering whether marriage was ill fated, and statistically doomed, just like my parents and all my friend’s parents’ ones seemed to turn out. An anxiety laced love song in which I deny all of those odds stacked against me and my wife, the best person ever," Williams continues.

Swim Deep have announced their first new live dates of the year alongside the single and album. The band kick off the tour in Manchester, and will play eleven dates across the UK, including shows in Nottingham, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle, and London.

Tracklist:

1. How Many Love Songs Have Died In Vegas?
2. Very Heaven
3. These Words
4. Robin
5. Don't Make Me a Stranger
6. First Song
7. Big Star
8. It's Just Sun In Your Eyes
9. So Long, So Far (Marble-Bellied Baby)
10. Fire Surrounds