The default tone of any piece about a band that doesn’t rigidly fit to the expected musical norms of a city is usually one of bewilderment, still striving to reference the same few bands you know from that area for SEO purposes, or even just to gill up the gaps in the writer’s own knowledge. Swallows Fly Low comes from Edinburgh, and whatever preconceptions you bring in with that should be pretty much abandoned immediately. Tagged as ‘chillwave’ on soundcloud, this isn’t anywhere near the faded, punch drunk noise of 2010 – this is joyous, inventive electronic, a gem glimmering in whatever rays of sun they manage to get in Scotland. It’s not moody and it doesn’t brood, this is much closer to the 7-year-old-in-a-toy-shop excitement and energy that has made Star Slinger such a joy to track over the past year or so.
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