{"id":2014783,"date":"2026-06-27T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2014783"},"modified":"2026-06-27T07:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:00:32","slug":"swim-deep-being-in-a-supergroup-with-charli-xcx-felt-like-playing-in-a-talent-contest-at-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2014783","title":{"rendered":"Swim Deep: \u201cBeing in a supergroup with Charli XCX felt like playing in a talent contest at school\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Swim-Deep-USE.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"template-id-2579083\" class=\"post-2579083 tdb_templates type-tdb_templates status-publish post\">\n<div id=\"tdi_65\" class=\"tdc-zone\">\n<div class=\"tdc_zone tdi_66  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div id=\"tdi_67\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_68  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_70  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_breadcrumbs tdi_71 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-breadcrumbs \" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_71\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span>Features<\/span><span>Music Interviews<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_title tdi_72 tdb-single-title td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_72\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Swim Deep: \u201cBeing in a supergroup with Charli XCX felt like playing in a talent contest at school\u201d<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_subtitle tdi_73 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_73\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>In Does Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll Kill Braincells?!, we quiz an artist on their own career to see how much they can remember \u2013 and find out if the booze, loud music and\/or tour sweeties has knocked the knowledge out of them. This week: Swim Deep frontman Austin \u201cOzzy\u201d Williams takes the ultimate test! <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_author tdi_75 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_75\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> Gary Ryan<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_date tdi_76 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_76\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2026-06-27T08:00:32+01:00\">27th June 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_77\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_78  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_80  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span8\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_featured_image tdi_81 tdb-content-horiz-left td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_81\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"441\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Swim-Deep-USE-696x441.jpg\" alt=\"Does Rock N Roll Kill Braincells? Swim Deep\" title=\"Swim Deep USE\"><figcaption class=\"tdb-caption-text\">Swim Deep CREDIT:  Luca Bailey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_row_inner tdi_83 article-content-row vc_row vc_inner wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column_inner tdi_85  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-inner-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_smartlist tdi_86 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdc-no-posts td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb_smart_list_1\">\n<div class=\"tdb-item\">\n<div class=\"tdb-number-and-title\">\n<h2>\n<div class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-nr\"><span>1<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-title\"><strong>You were part of the charity indie supergroup Bands 4 Refugees. Who introduced you onstage at the 2017 NME Awards?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-description\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas it Justin [Young] from The Vaccines? Or Kano?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WRONG.<\/strong><em>M.I.A. introduced the group, which also included Charli XCX, Olly Alexander, Soft Play\u2019s Isaac Holman and members of fellow B-Towners Peace, covering The Rolling Stones\u2019 \u2018Gimme Shelter\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo way! I remember meeting Kano, because I made it my Facebook profile photo. A friend at my day-job is obsessed with Charli XCX and I told her: \u2018I played in a supergroup with her once!\u2019. She was impressed. A lot of us were pals, and Charli entered the room, who did feel like more of a superstar, but it felt like we were all playing in a talent contest at school. It was a good laugh.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bands 4 Refugees - Gimme Shelter at NME Awards (Live on Facebook)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vqd17P44EZQ?start=127&amp;feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-item\">\n<div class=\"tdb-number-and-title\">\n<h2>\n<div class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-nr\"><span>2<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-title\"><strong>Which actor was emblazoned on your T-shirt when Swim Deep played Glastonbury in 2015<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-description\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI borrowed the T-shirt off my manager. It was his when he was about 17 and I remember him being precious about it. Oh God, <em>who<\/em> was it? This is going to <em>kill<\/em> me! I feel it\u2019s in the Patrick Swayze realm?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WRONG.<\/strong><em>The shirt featured Robin Williams in character from the 1970s sitcom<\/em> Mork &amp; Mindy<em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUgh, that\u2019s so annoying! We played on the Other stage at Glastonbury that year, and it felt special. There\u2019s something in the ley-lines. We were just going wild. They strictly give you one guest-list place each, and we tried to get our mates in by putting them on the crew list as \u2018tambourine player\u2019, etc. As we were getting out of our van, Fat White Family turned up and said, \u2018We\u2019ve forgotten our wristbands and we\u2019re on in 20 minutes\u2019. And obviously they\u2019d not lost them \u2013 they\u2019d given them to their mates. We thought: <em>Why <\/em>didn\u2019t we do that? Why are we such chickens? They\u2019re a <em>real<\/em> band! [<em>Laughs<\/em>]\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swim Deep - King City @ Glastonbury Festival 2015, Other Stage\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BhOwzEYiKjU?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-item\">\n<div class=\"tdb-number-and-title\">\n<h2>\n<div class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-nr\"><span>3<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-title\"><strong>What number did Swim Deep\u2019s 2013 debut album \u2018Where the Heaven Are We\u2019 reach on the UK album chart? <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-description\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201c20?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>CORRECT.<\/strong><em>How do you look back on that period?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFondly. Throughout my twenties, there were phases of looking back on it in a cringe-worthy way because, ultimately, we were teenagers making music. When you\u2019re in your mid-twenties, you rebel from that a bit, but now I\u2019m in my thirties I look back on it as a magical time and a whirlwind. Before my wedding [in 2024], I sat in a cubicle with my best man, Cavan [McCarthy], our bassist, at my stag-do. We were crying to each other about how much we\u2019d done together, and we\u2019d never really had that conversation before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Did you enlist any of your musical mates for the wedding band?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. We\u2019ve been in a wedding band before for our friends and it always feels like a lot of work. But everyone got on the decks. My wife\u2019s half-Irish, so I got a trad-Irish band to play. I didn\u2019t really want an Oasis cover band which is my heritage!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Ever meet Oasis? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe met Liam [Gallagher] outside Pizza Express once in Camden. It was in our hippie era, and Cav was wearing a big poncho at the time. Liam said a snarky comment like, \u2018Yo, psychedelic, dude!\u2019. We loved that.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swim Deep - Honey\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P49qiSnA_nw?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-smart_list_6  tdi_87 td_block_template_2\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-item\">\n<div class=\"tdb-number-and-title\">\n<h2>\n<div class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-nr\"><span>4<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-title\"><strong>Which former UK political party leader once professed to being a fan of Swim Deep? <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-description\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNick Clegg, leader of the Lib Dems? No? If it\u2019s not Nick Clegg, then God knows!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WRONG.<\/strong><em>Close \u2013 it was Clegg\u2019s successor Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrat leader from 2015-2017. In 2015, the Westmorland and Lonsdale MP claimed he was \u201ceagerly awaiting the new Swim Deep album\u201d, adding \u201cI think they\u2019re great\u201d.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know he also said he liked Everything Everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>He did! Who\u2019s been the most unexpected fan of Swim Deep?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2014, we were playing a festival in Europe, and there was a knock at the door. It was a Tyler, the Creator and he popped his head in and said, \u2018I love the new video guys\u2019, in his really low voice. In his true humorous fashion, he then just ran away. We were gobsmacked. He was talking about our original video for \u2018King City\u2019 which is just us skating around Birmingham and was shot by our friend. It feels like a very Tyler, the Creator-adjacent video, but it was unexpected \u2013 and welcome \u2018cause we\u2019re big fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swim Deep - King City (Official Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ATxs0N_DFTw?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-item\">\n<div class=\"tdb-number-and-title\">\n<h2>\n<div class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-nr\"><span>5<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-title\"><strong>At Glastonbury, which musical titan did Alexa Chung once tell Cav he looked like?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-description\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201c[<em>Laughs<\/em>] Was it Bowie?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>CORRECT. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYES!! That\u2019s another unexpected fan. Alexa Chung is my poster girl from my teenage years, which is awkward to say because I know her now. She\u2019s great and a real icon. I loved her humour when she interviewed bands on <em>Popworld<\/em>. When she said she was a fan of us and Tame Impala, we lost our minds. Actually, at the start of \u2018She Changes The Weather\u2019, when it\u2019s just the piano and quite ambient, you hear talking but you can\u2019t make out what we\u2019re saying. I wanted it to feel like being at a gig and you can hear just indistinguishable nattering in the crowd. When we went into the booth to fake this talking, we didn\u2019t know what to talk about, so I just remember us saying \u2018Alexa Chung\u2019 quite a few times. Maybe we manifested her being a fan!\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swim Deep - She Changes the Weather (Official Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UQUIOUKhEdk?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-item\">\n<div class=\"tdb-number-and-title\">\n<h2>\n<div class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-nr\"><span>6<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-title\"><strong>Swim Deep\u2019s \u2018One Great Song And I Could Change the World\u2019 appears in which video game?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-description\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>FIFA 16<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>CORRECT.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely one of our proudest achievements! When a posted about being in <em>FIFA<\/em>, every friend from school congratulated me. When he found out I was in a band called Swim Deep, the bouncer on the door at my day job said: \u2018No way! \u2018One Great Song And I Could Change the World\u2019 was one of my favourite songs on <em>FIFA 16<\/em> and it reminds me of my childhood. That song has one of the best riffs I\u2019ve heard\u2019. That inspired me to write the riff for our recent single, \u2018You, Me &amp; Mary\u2019 because I wanted to prove to myself that I could write a riff again \u2018cause I hadn\u2019t done it in so long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly on, we toured Europe and The 1975 supported us. Even then, they had a sleeper bus and we were in a tiny van. [Laughs] They were bigger than us already. But we\u2019d go onto their bus to play <em>FIFA<\/em> a lot and they were big stoners, so you\u2019d come off their bus feeling like it was yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Who was the best at<\/em> FIFA<em> out of Swim Deep and The 1975?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 1975\u2019s George [Daniel] and Ross [MacDonald] were probably the best out of The 1975 \u2013 but I think we were<em> better<\/em>, I\u2019d like to say! [<em>Laughs<\/em>]. We all ended up being friends and then they later took us on tour with them throughout America. They stretched down their hands when they got really big to us, which was a really sweet thing. Don\u2019t believe everything you hear about them: they\u2019re really nice guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swim Deep - One Great Song And I Could Change The World (Official Audio)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4I_-QvrKwS0?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-item\">\n<div class=\"tdb-number-and-title\">\n<h2>\n<div class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-nr\"><span>7<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-title\"><strong>Can you complete the following lyrics: \u2018<em>Don\u2019t you put a spell on me\u2026<\/em>\u2019? <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-description\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs this a Swim Deep lyric? I don\u2019t believe I\u2019ve ever written\u2026 oh!\u2026 it\u2019s \u2018<em>Don\u2019t you put a spell on me, tassel man \/ I wanna live past twenty-three, tassel man\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>CORRECT.<\/strong><em>From your and Wolf Alice\u2019s (officially unreleased) collab \u2018Tassel Man\u2019 that you co-wrote together when dating.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a deep cut! We made it when we were 23 so that puts a stamp on it. Obviously me and Ellie Rowsell were both writing our own songs \u2013 me for Swim Deep, her for Wolf Alice. We had a couple of beers and decided to see what would happen. At the time we were listening to Temples and a lot of psychedelia and Nuggets compilations. We\u2019d come back on a bus somewhere and there was a guy who had a cotton crocheted thing with tassels coming out the top it. It freaked us out and we called him the Tassel Man, and wrote a song about how we thought he was putting a spell on us. We made a second song, \u2018Tassel Man 2\u2019, so maybe we\u2019ll put it out at some point. I\u2019ll text her.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WOLF ALICE &amp; SWIM DEEP - Tasselman\/King City\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0P7sW1Phygc?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-smart_list_7  tdi_88 td_block_template_2\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-item\">\n<div class=\"tdb-number-and-title\">\n<h2>\n<div class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-nr\"><span>8<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-title\"><strong>Which Swim Deep band member won at bowling when <em>NME<\/em> visited you in Brussels earlier this year for an in-studio feature about your latest album \u2018Hum\u2019?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-description\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201c[<em>Laughs<\/em>] I think it was me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>CORRECT.<\/strong><em>When you look back on Swim Deep\u2019s journey, how does it feel to release your fifth album?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis album reflects that journey a lot and how we\u2019ve grown up together. The band\u2019s changed a lot, but the heart, the ethos, the drive, and the dream is similar. We\u2019re an inspiring band because it\u2019s real-world and we all go back to our jobs. For the first three years, we didn\u2019t have to do that, but watching this journey of friends trying to make music whilst juggling real-life feels inspiring and we\u2019re proud to get it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>When you recorded \u2018Hum\u2019 at ICP studios, you were warned, \u2018The lead singer of Placebo is in the flat below you so please, no parties\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw him [Brian Molko] once or twice and we nodded our heads to each other, but he was very to himself. He chain-smoked constantly, so my bed smelled of cigs constantly! It was nice being in the presence of greatness, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swim Deep - You Me and Mary\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p12fzVk1aLM?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-item\">\n<div class=\"tdb-number-and-title\">\n<h2>\n<div class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-nr\"><span>9<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-title\">\u2018<strong>Fueiho Boogie\u2019, the closing track from Swim Deep\u2019s second album, \u2018Mothers\u2019, takes its name from the Japanese \u2018Fueiho\u2019 laws which policed dancing in clubs. In what year was the legislation change?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-description\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat song came out in 2015, so 2016?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>CORRECT.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c[<em>Joking<\/em>] Thanks to us and that song! <em>[Laughs<\/em>] I always worried whether we were going to get trouble for it in Japan, if it might be seen as a slight on the law. We haven\u2019t actually been back there since we released the song, so maybe we did!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one of my favourites and a departure from the world we\u2019d created on the first album, which some reviews called \u2018wishy-washy\u2019. That got to us. I wish I could go back and give myself a slap and say: \u2018Look at the people who actually like your music rather than listening to the critics\u2019. \u2018Mothers\u2019 was partly us saying, \u2018we can make an album that is reviewed well\u2019, but mainly we wanted to experiment and were listening to krautrock and acid house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first album was made on the dole on GarageBand and then taken to a studio when we got signed, whereas with the second one we had the time, money and freedom to do what we wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swim Deep - Fueiho Boogie (Official Audio)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F2tpRiNEsWg?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-item\">\n<div class=\"tdb-number-and-title\">\n<h2>\n<div class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-nr\"><span>10<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-title\"><strong>What is the B-side to Swim Deep\u2019s 2015 single \u2018To My Brother\u2019? <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-description\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it \u2018Si Si Me Voy\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WRONG.<\/strong><em>\u2018Hotel California\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Of course<\/em> it is! I knew I was going to do badly, but zero points is not good! \u2018Hotel California\u2019 was the first song that we wrote after \u2018Where the Heaven Are We\u2019. We were really into \u2018Hotel California\u2019 by the Eagles and kept singing it, so my chorus has echoes of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swim Deep - Hotel California (Official Audio)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BQpYrsMPmIM?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<h3><strong>The verdict: 6\/10<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the same score<em> NME<\/em> awarded \u2018Where the Heaven Are We\u2019!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Swim Deep\u2019s fifth album, \u2018Hum\u2019, is out now via Submarine Cat Records. The band embark on a UK headline tour this autumn, with remaining tickets available here<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_tags tdi_89 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_89\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<ul class=\"tdb-tags\">\n<li><span>Related Topics<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Does Rock &#8216;N&#8217; Roll Kill Braincells?<\/li>\n<li>Swim Deep<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper td_block_wrap vc_raw_html tdi_91 \">\n<div class=\"td-fix-index\">\n<h3>You May Also Like<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_93  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span4 td-is-sticky\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-sidebar  tdi_94 td_block_template_2\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap td_flex_block_1 tdi_95 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdc-no-posts td_flex_block\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_95\">\n<div class=\"td-block-title-wrap\">\n<h4 class=\"td-block-title\"><span class=\"td-pulldown-size\">TRENDING<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_95\" class=\"td_block_inner td-mc1-wrap\">\n<div class=\"td_module_flex td_module_flex_1 td_module_wrap td-animation-stack\">\n<div class=\"td-module-container td-category-pos-\">\n<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title td-module-title\">Hayley Williams live in Manchester: Paramore star balances joy and rage at intimate UK show<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_module_flex td_module_flex_1 td_module_wrap td-animation-stack\">\n<div class=\"td-module-container td-category-pos-\">\n<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title td-module-title\">\u2018The Bear\u2019 season five review: tuck into the final helping of this heartfelt kitchen drama<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_module_flex td_module_flex_1 td_module_wrap td-animation-stack\">\n<div class=\"td-module-container td-category-pos-\">\n<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title td-module-title\">NYC trio Chanpan make fresh, unpredictable alt-pop that plays by their own rules<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_module_flex td_module_flex_1 td_module_wrap td-animation-stack\">\n<div class=\"td-module-container td-category-pos-\">\n<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title td-module-title\">Hearts2Hearts: the sweet sound of a K-pop summer<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_module_flex td_module_flex_1 td_module_wrap td-animation-stack\">\n<div class=\"td-module-container td-category-pos-\">\n<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title td-module-title\">\u2018Star Fox\u2019 review: refuelled space-shooter ready for a fresh generation<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-custom_ad_1  tdi_96 td_block_template_2\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"td-page-meta\"><\/span><span class=\"td-page-meta\"><span class=\"td-page-meta\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"td-page-meta\"><\/span><\/article>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_smartlist tdi_86 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdc-no-posts td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb_smart_list_1\">\n<div class=\"tdb-item\">\n<div class=\"tdb-number-and-title\">\n<h2>\n<div class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-nr\"><span>1<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-title\"><strong>You were part of the charity indie supergroup Bands 4 Refugees. Who introduced you onstage at the 2017 NME Awards?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-description\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas it Justin [Young] from The Vaccines? Or Kano?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WRONG.<\/strong><em>M.I.A. introduced the group, which also included Charli XCX, Olly Alexander, Soft Play\u2019s Isaac Holman and members of fellow B-Towners Peace, covering The Rolling Stones\u2019 \u2018Gimme Shelter\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo way! I remember meeting Kano, because I made it my Facebook profile photo. A friend at my day-job is obsessed with Charli XCX and I told her: \u2018I played in a supergroup with her once!\u2019. She was impressed. A lot of us were pals, and Charli entered the room, who did feel like more of a superstar, but it felt like we were all playing in a talent contest at school. It was a good laugh.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bands 4 Refugees - Gimme Shelter at NME Awards (Live on Facebook)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vqd17P44EZQ?start=127&amp;feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-item\">\n<div class=\"tdb-number-and-title\">\n<h2>\n<div class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-nr\"><span>2<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-title\"><strong>Which actor was emblazoned on your T-shirt when Swim Deep played Glastonbury in 2015<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-description\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI borrowed the T-shirt off my manager. It was his when he was about 17 and I remember him being precious about it. Oh God, <em>who<\/em> was it? This is going to <em>kill<\/em> me! I feel it\u2019s in the Patrick Swayze realm?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WRONG.<\/strong><em>The shirt featured Robin Williams in character from the 1970s sitcom<\/em> Mork &amp; Mindy<em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUgh, that\u2019s so annoying! We played on the Other stage at Glastonbury that year, and it felt special. There\u2019s something in the ley-lines. We were just going wild. They strictly give you one guest-list place each, and we tried to get our mates in by putting them on the crew list as \u2018tambourine player\u2019, etc. As we were getting out of our van, Fat White Family turned up and said, \u2018We\u2019ve forgotten our wristbands and we\u2019re on in 20 minutes\u2019. And obviously they\u2019d not lost them \u2013 they\u2019d given them to their mates. We thought: <em>Why <\/em>didn\u2019t we do that? Why are we such chickens? They\u2019re a <em>real<\/em> band! [<em>Laughs<\/em>]\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swim Deep - King City @ Glastonbury Festival 2015, Other Stage\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BhOwzEYiKjU?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-item\">\n<div class=\"tdb-number-and-title\">\n<h2>\n<div class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-nr\"><span>3<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-title\"><strong>What number did Swim Deep\u2019s 2013 debut album \u2018Where the Heaven Are We\u2019 reach on the UK album chart? <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-description\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201c20?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>CORRECT.<\/strong><em>How do you look back on that period?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFondly. Throughout my twenties, there were phases of looking back on it in a cringe-worthy way because, ultimately, we were teenagers making music. When you\u2019re in your mid-twenties, you rebel from that a bit, but now I\u2019m in my thirties I look back on it as a magical time and a whirlwind. Before my wedding [in 2024], I sat in a cubicle with my best man, Cavan [McCarthy], our bassist, at my stag-do. We were crying to each other about how much we\u2019d done together, and we\u2019d never really had that conversation before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Did you enlist any of your musical mates for the wedding band?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. We\u2019ve been in a wedding band before for our friends and it always feels like a lot of work. But everyone got on the decks. My wife\u2019s half-Irish, so I got a trad-Irish band to play. I didn\u2019t really want an Oasis cover band which is my heritage!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Ever meet Oasis? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe met Liam [Gallagher] outside Pizza Express once in Camden. It was in our hippie era, and Cav was wearing a big poncho at the time. Liam said a snarky comment like, \u2018Yo, psychedelic, dude!\u2019. We loved that.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swim Deep - Honey\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P49qiSnA_nw?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-smart_list_6  tdi_87 td_block_template_2\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-item\">\n<div class=\"tdb-number-and-title\">\n<h2>\n<div class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-nr\"><span>4<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-title\"><strong>Which former UK political party leader once professed to being a fan of Swim Deep? <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-description\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNick Clegg, leader of the Lib Dems? No? If it\u2019s not Nick Clegg, then God knows!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WRONG.<\/strong><em>Close \u2013 it was Clegg\u2019s successor Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrat leader from 2015-2017. In 2015, the Westmorland and Lonsdale MP claimed he was \u201ceagerly awaiting the new Swim Deep album\u201d, adding \u201cI think they\u2019re great\u201d.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know he also said he liked Everything Everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>He did! Who\u2019s been the most unexpected fan of Swim Deep?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2014, we were playing a festival in Europe, and there was a knock at the door. It was a Tyler, the Creator and he popped his head in and said, \u2018I love the new video guys\u2019, in his really low voice. In his true humorous fashion, he then just ran away. We were gobsmacked. He was talking about our original video for \u2018King City\u2019 which is just us skating around Birmingham and was shot by our friend. It feels like a very Tyler, the Creator-adjacent video, but it was unexpected \u2013 and welcome \u2018cause we\u2019re big fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swim Deep - King City (Official Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ATxs0N_DFTw?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-item\">\n<div class=\"tdb-number-and-title\">\n<h2>\n<div class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-nr\"><span>5<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-title\"><strong>At Glastonbury, which musical titan did Alexa Chung once tell Cav he looked like?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-description\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201c[<em>Laughs<\/em>] Was it Bowie?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>CORRECT. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYES!! That\u2019s another unexpected fan. Alexa Chung is my poster girl from my teenage years, which is awkward to say because I know her now. She\u2019s great and a real icon. I loved her humour when she interviewed bands on <em>Popworld<\/em>. When she said she was a fan of us and Tame Impala, we lost our minds. Actually, at the start of \u2018She Changes The Weather\u2019, when it\u2019s just the piano and quite ambient, you hear talking but you can\u2019t make out what we\u2019re saying. I wanted it to feel like being at a gig and you can hear just indistinguishable nattering in the crowd. When we went into the booth to fake this talking, we didn\u2019t know what to talk about, so I just remember us saying \u2018Alexa Chung\u2019 quite a few times. Maybe we manifested her being a fan!\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swim Deep - She Changes the Weather (Official Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UQUIOUKhEdk?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-item\">\n<div class=\"tdb-number-and-title\">\n<h2>\n<div class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-nr\"><span>6<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-title\"><strong>Swim Deep\u2019s \u2018One Great Song And I Could Change the World\u2019 appears in which video game?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-description\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>FIFA 16<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>CORRECT.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely one of our proudest achievements! When a posted about being in <em>FIFA<\/em>, every friend from school congratulated me. When he found out I was in a band called Swim Deep, the bouncer on the door at my day job said: \u2018No way! \u2018One Great Song And I Could Change the World\u2019 was one of my favourite songs on <em>FIFA 16<\/em> and it reminds me of my childhood. That song has one of the best riffs I\u2019ve heard\u2019. That inspired me to write the riff for our recent single, \u2018You, Me &amp; Mary\u2019 because I wanted to prove to myself that I could write a riff again \u2018cause I hadn\u2019t done it in so long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly on, we toured Europe and The 1975 supported us. Even then, they had a sleeper bus and we were in a tiny van. [Laughs] They were bigger than us already. But we\u2019d go onto their bus to play <em>FIFA<\/em> a lot and they were big stoners, so you\u2019d come off their bus feeling like it was yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Who was the best at<\/em> FIFA<em> out of Swim Deep and The 1975?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 1975\u2019s George [Daniel] and Ross [MacDonald] were probably the best out of The 1975 \u2013 but I think we were<em> better<\/em>, I\u2019d like to say! [<em>Laughs<\/em>]. We all ended up being friends and then they later took us on tour with them throughout America. They stretched down their hands when they got really big to us, which was a really sweet thing. Don\u2019t believe everything you hear about them: they\u2019re really nice guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swim Deep - One Great Song And I Could Change The World (Official Audio)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4I_-QvrKwS0?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-item\">\n<div class=\"tdb-number-and-title\">\n<h2>\n<div class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-nr\"><span>7<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-title\"><strong>Can you complete the following lyrics: \u2018<em>Don\u2019t you put a spell on me\u2026<\/em>\u2019? <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-description\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs this a Swim Deep lyric? I don\u2019t believe I\u2019ve ever written\u2026 oh!\u2026 it\u2019s \u2018<em>Don\u2019t you put a spell on me, tassel man \/ I wanna live past twenty-three, tassel man\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>CORRECT.<\/strong><em>From your and Wolf Alice\u2019s (officially unreleased) collab \u2018Tassel Man\u2019 that you co-wrote together when dating.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a deep cut! We made it when we were 23 so that puts a stamp on it. Obviously me and Ellie Rowsell were both writing our own songs \u2013 me for Swim Deep, her for Wolf Alice. We had a couple of beers and decided to see what would happen. At the time we were listening to Temples and a lot of psychedelia and Nuggets compilations. We\u2019d come back on a bus somewhere and there was a guy who had a cotton crocheted thing with tassels coming out the top it. It freaked us out and we called him the Tassel Man, and wrote a song about how we thought he was putting a spell on us. We made a second song, \u2018Tassel Man 2\u2019, so maybe we\u2019ll put it out at some point. I\u2019ll text her.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WOLF ALICE &amp; SWIM DEEP - Tasselman\/King City\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0P7sW1Phygc?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-smart_list_7  tdi_88 td_block_template_2\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-item\">\n<div class=\"tdb-number-and-title\">\n<h2>\n<div class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-nr\"><span>8<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-title\"><strong>Which Swim Deep band member won at bowling when <em>NME<\/em> visited you in Brussels earlier this year for an in-studio feature about your latest album \u2018Hum\u2019?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-description\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201c[<em>Laughs<\/em>] I think it was me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>CORRECT.<\/strong><em>When you look back on Swim Deep\u2019s journey, how does it feel to release your fifth album?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis album reflects that journey a lot and how we\u2019ve grown up together. The band\u2019s changed a lot, but the heart, the ethos, the drive, and the dream is similar. We\u2019re an inspiring band because it\u2019s real-world and we all go back to our jobs. For the first three years, we didn\u2019t have to do that, but watching this journey of friends trying to make music whilst juggling real-life feels inspiring and we\u2019re proud to get it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>When you recorded \u2018Hum\u2019 at ICP studios, you were warned, \u2018The lead singer of Placebo is in the flat below you so please, no parties\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw him [Brian Molko] once or twice and we nodded our heads to each other, but he was very to himself. He chain-smoked constantly, so my bed smelled of cigs constantly! It was nice being in the presence of greatness, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swim Deep - You Me and Mary\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p12fzVk1aLM?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-item\">\n<div class=\"tdb-number-and-title\">\n<h2>\n<div class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-nr\"><span>9<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-title\">\u2018<strong>Fueiho Boogie\u2019, the closing track from Swim Deep\u2019s second album, \u2018Mothers\u2019, takes its name from the Japanese \u2018Fueiho\u2019 laws which policed dancing in clubs. In what year was the legislation change?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-description\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat song came out in 2015, so 2016?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>CORRECT.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c[<em>Joking<\/em>] Thanks to us and that song! <em>[Laughs<\/em>] I always worried whether we were going to get trouble for it in Japan, if it might be seen as a slight on the law. We haven\u2019t actually been back there since we released the song, so maybe we did!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one of my favourites and a departure from the world we\u2019d created on the first album, which some reviews called \u2018wishy-washy\u2019. That got to us. I wish I could go back and give myself a slap and say: \u2018Look at the people who actually like your music rather than listening to the critics\u2019. \u2018Mothers\u2019 was partly us saying, \u2018we can make an album that is reviewed well\u2019, but mainly we wanted to experiment and were listening to krautrock and acid house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first album was made on the dole on GarageBand and then taken to a studio when we got signed, whereas with the second one we had the time, money and freedom to do what we wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swim Deep - Fueiho Boogie (Official Audio)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F2tpRiNEsWg?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-item\">\n<div class=\"tdb-number-and-title\">\n<h2>\n<div class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-nr\"><span>10<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-current-item-title\"><strong>What is the B-side to Swim Deep\u2019s 2015 single \u2018To My Brother\u2019? <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tdb-sml-description\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it \u2018Si Si Me Voy\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WRONG.<\/strong><em>\u2018Hotel California\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Of course<\/em> it is! I knew I was going to do badly, but zero points is not good! \u2018Hotel California\u2019 was the first song that we wrote after \u2018Where the Heaven Are We\u2019. We were really into \u2018Hotel California\u2019 by the Eagles and kept singing it, so my chorus has echoes of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Swim Deep - Hotel California (Official Audio)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BQpYrsMPmIM?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<h3><strong>The verdict: 6\/10<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the same score<em> NME<\/em> awarded \u2018Where the Heaven Are We\u2019!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Swim Deep\u2019s fifth album, \u2018Hum\u2019, is out now via Submarine Cat Records. 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