Swimming

Album: Love And Its Opposite (2010)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is the closing track on former Everything but the Girl singer Tracey Thorn's third solo album, Love And Its Opposite. "I really wanted it to be the closing track," she said on her website. "It holds out hope for love's survival even when it seems to be in hibernation."
  • The song features Nashville singer-songwriter-drummer Cortney Tidwell on drums and backing vocals.
  • CMU asked Thorn about the process she went through in creating a track for the album. She replied: "It varies. This time around I started most of the tracks from scratch myself, either putting down a guitar or piano part, and then we added vocals and other instrumentation. A couple of the tracks we started off with the rhythm section of Al Doyle and Leo Taylor, then built the other instruments on top. But in the past I have often done collaborative tracks where someone else creates an electronic backing track which I then write vocal melody and lyrics for."

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