Swimming (French Kicks album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Swimming
Type = Album
Artist = French Kicks


Released = March 31, 2008
Recorded = December 2007 at The Saltlands, Brooklyn, NY by Alex Pasco
Genre = Rock/Pop
Length = 44:02
Label = Vagrant Records
Producer = French Kicks
Reviews = *Allmusic rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3nfixzqjldhe link]
*"Pitchfork Media (7.6/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/144907-french-kicks-swimming link]
*"The Village Voice" (favorable) [http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0821,hypnotic-melodrama-with-a-little-help-from-their-friends,446745,22.html link]
*"Urb" (favorable) [http://www.urb.com/reviews/cd/feature.php?ReviewId=595 link]
*"Spin" rating|3.5|5 [http://spin.com/reviews/french-kicks-swimming-vagrant link]
*"The Washington Post" (favorable) [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/17/AR2008041701230.html link]
*"Billboard" (favorable) [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/content_display/reviews/albums/e3i4c48acfb0da84a31528be8a798be81b3 link]
*CMJ (favorable) [http://prod1.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=63047412 link]
*"City Pages" (favorable) [http://www.citypages.com/2008-06-04/music/french-kicks-swimming/ link]
*"PopMatters" rating|5|10 [http://www.popmatters.com/pm/reviews/article/58033/the-french-kicks-swimming/ link]
*"Nylon" (favorable) [http://www.nylonmag.com/?section=article&parid=1375 link]
*"Rotten Tomatoes" rating|8.5|10 [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/journal_view.php?s=&journalid=181992 link]
*IGN (favorable) [http://music.ign.com/articles/876/876154p1.html link]
*Hartford Advocate (favorable) [http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article_print.cfm?aid=7926 link]
*"The Daily Tar Heel" rating|3.5|5 [http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2008/04/10/Diversions/Music.Shorts-3314203.shtml link]
*Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (favorable) [http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=752669 link]
*"The Daily Mississippian" (favorable) [http://media.www.thedmonline.com/media/storage/paper876/news/2008/06/04/ArtsLife/swimming.Offers.Garage.Rock.Poetic.Lyrics-3378324.shtml link]

Last album = "Two Thousand"
(2006)
This album = "Swimming"
(2008)
Next album =

"Swimming" is the fourth full-length album by New York-based indie rock band French Kicks. Their first self-produced album, Swimming is marked by a more stripped-down sound than is found on their previous albums. Explaining the recording process, guitarist Josh Wise said that the band "used a lot of first and second takes and tried to preserve a sense of immediacy and discovery that comes from putting things down before you really have a chance to think too hard." [cite web | url = http://www.vagrant.com/release/details/190| author = Vagrant Records| date = 2008-04-01 | title = Swimming Release Details]

It was released on March 31, 2008. They will be touring this album between April 08, starting in New York and June 11, closing in Ohio. [cite web | url = http://www.frenchkicks.com/shows.htm | author = French Kicks| date = 2008-04-05 | title = Shows | format = http | publisher = http://www.frenchkicks.com| accessdate = 2008-04-05]

Track listing

# "Abandon" – 3:56
# "Over the World" – 4:26
# "Carried Away" – 3:29
# "New Man" – 4:38
# "Said So What" – 4:16
# "Atlanta" – 4:48
# "Love in the Ruins" – 3:38
# "With the Fishes" – 3:39
# "The Way You Arrive" – 4:19
# "All Our Weekends" – 4:03
# "Sex Tourists" – 3:29
# "This Could Go Wrong" – 3:42

External links

* [http://www.frenchkicks.com French Kicks official website]

References