ALBUM REVIEW: AT SWIM ‘SE18’
SE18 gives you the same feeling as watching a film from beginning to end, witnessing the story evolve from the first scene of where everything happened. In the neighborhood and street filled with memories. Everything that made up to the memories weave into what is standing today in a vague, distant sound.
Revisiting the conversations, fragments of words among feelings, At Swim pays homage to the place they grew up in. The dreamscape of guitar and fretless bass travels back where the time has stopped.
The album captured the essence of a frozen screen where everything is preserved in a jar. The unique urban sound environment creates a transparent, luminous feeling with obscurity and warmth. The album stands as an imaginary world of its own.
SE18 has a cinematic side in its soundscape as well as reflective and non-descriptive. It creates the perfect space for a story to take place on its own through imagination with the right amount of direction for it to be cohesive.
Written by Katrina Yang
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