Swearin'

Grow Into A Ghost

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Today we’re listening to “Grow Into A Ghost” by Swearin’

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It’s a familiar story; two bandmates fall in—and then out— of love, and that’s usually the obituary for the group.

Philly’s Swearin’ were almost the latest in a long list of groups that broke under the weight of a breakup. Indeed after singer Allison Crutchfield and Kyle Gilbride split, the band went on indefinite hiatus.

Crutchfield went and recorded a solo album, Tourist in This Town and spent time on the road as a touring member of her twin sister Katie’s Waxcahatchee.

"I felt like we had unfinished business," says Gildbride of the prospect of a third album, one that appeared dashed when he reluctantly agreed to call time on the group nearly three years ago. "I always thought that the third one was going to be the moment when we truly represented ourselves. That was going to be when we got it together, where our musical personalities felt fully formed, where we’d get to make a bit of a statement. I already had some songs for it. And then the opportunity was gone."

Eventually, Gilbride and Crutchfield worked through their differences and came back together to make their third record, 2018’s “Fall Into The Sun.”

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More:

“…if 2012’s Swearin’ was the sound of them finding their feet and its 2013 follow-up Surfing Strange had them giddily throwing noisy ideas at the wall and seeing which of them stuck, then Fall Into the Sun is their grown-up album, scored through with assurance and the deft touch of lo-fi indie rock old hands. It’s still irresistibly hooky and consistently fun, but the boisterousness of old is now presented coolly with a new-found poise and aplomb.”

You can read the rest of the story behind the band’s return here.

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Listen:

“Grow Into A Ghost” by Swearin’ | Fall Into The Sun, 2018

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