Swim Deep have dropped another new track, 'I Keep Her Photograph With Me'

Swim Deep have released 'I Keep Her Photograph With Me', the latest track to be lifted from 'Hum', their fifth studio album arriving on 19th June through Submarine Cat Records.

The single was written by the band's newest member JJ Buchanan, who previously played in Fur. Speaking about the track, Buchanan said: "After coming back to songwriting via writing with Austin, this was the first song that I'd written on my own in two or three years. My time with my last band ended quite abruptly and painfully, and I really didn't think I could write a song again. This was a platform to express myself again, and the song touches on my obsession with anticipating the end of things and the feelings that come with it. I carry around a photo of my partner in the back of my phone. I guess that photographs are the only way to hold onto moments in time."

Frontman Austin Williams added: "When JJ showed me this demo it was like hearing one of my favorite songs for the first time. It plunged me into this warm and fuzzy world that I was happy to drown in. And for me it had all the elements of a song that I've always strived for Swim Deep to emmit. Strong emotion, melancholy, hope and warmth."

Lyrically, 'Hum' is described as picking up where its predecessor left off. That album documented Williams navigating fatherhood and bereavement simultaneously, and the new collection deals with what followed - questions of loss, family and obligation to loved ones. Williams said: "I've now got someone to inspire. It's like, 'Yeah, your dad works at a bar to make rent, but this is what he actually does, this is what the dream is, and we'll all live on it together. That's the ethos on this album."

Swim Deep completed a sold-out run of dates across Thailand and China in December, following a line-up change that brought Buchanan into the fold.