No running, no smoking, no bombing is a collection of early Swimmer One recordings from 2001, the fruits of our first ever visit to a recording studio. At the time we'd been making music together for a few months, and were still very much finding our voice. In the end we decided it didn't quite achieve the standards we'd set for ourselves, sounding like a demo rather than a finished product. So we went back to the drawing board, and a few months later came up with our debut single, We Just Make Music For Ourselves.
We still quite like these songs, though, and we thought it might be nice to share these early Swimmer One recordings with you. How Could Something Like That Be Love, as some of you will know, was rerecorded for our second single. And if you're paying very close attention, you'll spot that part of the lyric for Here was later reused in Regional, one of the songs on our debut album, The Regional Variations, on sale elsewhere on this site.
You can download these songs for free if you like. Enjoy.
Seafieldroad is a solo project by Andrew from Swimmer One. Piano, vocals and string section. Enjoy. 'A lovely album. A late contender for one of the best of the year.' - Gideon Coe, BBC 6Music Swimmer One
Luxury Car are also on Swimmer One's label, Biphonic Records. This is a great album we are proud to be involved with. 'Evokes an Angelo Badalamenti score left to deteriorate in the rain.' The Skinny Swimmer One