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Here are some songs from our new album, Dead Orchestras, for listening/embedding/sharing. If you like them, please visit our shop and buy some of them so we can afford to make more.

This Club Is For Everybody, Even You by Biphonic Records

Here’s Your Train, Safe Home by Biphonic Records

Psychogeography by Biphonic Records

Ghosts In The Hotel by Biphonic Records

You Have Fallen Way Short Of Our Expectations by Biphonic Records


And here are some older unreleased songs for listening/embedding/sharing, plus a little background on each of them. Since we’re generous sorts, you can download these ones for free…

Cloudbusting

Swimmer One - Cloudbusting by Biphonic Records

Don’t want a full-fat AIFF? Here’s an MP3: Swimmer One - Cloudbusting.

Andrew: This one has been online for a while (it’s one of our most popular songs at Last.FM), but we thought we’d put it up here too for anyone who hasn’t heard it, and because Last.FM listeners have been grumbling that they can’t download it. It is, obviously, our cover of Kate Bush’s Cloudbusting, with a bit of another 1980s pop hit cheekily thrown in at the end. We recorded it years ago, before Laura joined Swimmer One, with our friend Cora Bissett singing the main vocal. Laura now sings it when we do it live; there’s a Radio One session version with Laura singing it too, which we might post here at some point. We love Kate Bush.

Lake Tahoe (instrumental)

Download MP3: Swimmer One - Lake Tahoe (instrumental).

Andrew: This is, very straightforwardly, an instrumental version of Lake Tahoe, a track from our second single Come On Let’s Go!, released way back in 2003. Sometimes I think I like the instrumental version more - it sounds like something from one of Brian Eno’s ambient albums. We used this version as part of a stage collaboration with the theatre company Highway Diner, at the Arches in 2005. The original version can be found in numerous places, including a short film by our regular collaborator Daniel Warren, which you can watch here.

How Could Something Like That Be Love? (alternate version)

Download MP3: Swimmer One - How Could Something Like That Be Love? (alternate version).

Andrew: While recording this song, the b-side of our 2003 single Come On Let’s Go!, I had a crisis of confidence and asked Cora Bissett to sing the lead vocal instead of me (this was in the early days of Swimmer One, long before we’d even played any live gigs). Hamish talked me into doing a version myself too, just in case it wasn’t crap. In the end we did use my vocal, with Cora on backing vocals. This is the version with Cora’s lead vocal. It appeared on a compilation a few years ago but has never been properly released.

Hamish: This was one of the very first songs we worked on together and has been through so may different incarnations. It used to be faster and more bleepy but ended up slower and more glitchy. I gave Andrew an instrumental version of this which was about ten minutes long, about three of which were noodly directionless intro, and which sounded a bit like Plastikman, who i was listening to a lot to at the time. He soon knocked it into shape. I’d just got hold of an S2000 sampler and the night I got it set up I used it for sampling a two-second bit from a guitar demo, looping it, putting a acid bassline under it and playing with the filter for about four hours solid. For the gearslutz out there, the filter in the S series samplers is brilliant and is on all our early stuff and even on bits of the first album.