I was pretty surprised when this track started, mostly because I assumed incorrectly that this tune from Vancouver’s Bear Mountain aka Ian Bevis entitled “Swim” was going to be a folky number. You know, that whole outdoorsy plaid shirt thing that goes along with a name like that. I guess that plus the song title made me thing of Great Lake Swimmers or something. But boy was I wrong. I guess I could have used some of my context clues to tell me that was not going to be the case, like the fact that his upcoming album is going to be released on Distorted Disco Records. Yeah, that should have been my first hint, but it wasn’t. But anyway, once I got over the initial shock, this ended up being a really nice upbeat electronic track complete with soulful vocal sample and rises and drops and all kinds of great effects. And the title makes me want to swim, but of course the temperatures are still struggling just to get out of the 30s, so that seems to be a little ways off (until, of course, I depart to southern California shortly for some Coachella/pool action). Bear Mountain has got some other cool tunes up on his bandcamp site so check those out too, y’all. Like the beautiful and starry-eyed “Eden”, also shown below. It’s nice that he can go soft and heavy. We like that.
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