Name: Nightswims
Duration: P00H03M48S
Description: "Nightswims" explores the difficulties of creating and sustaining intimacy in a digitalized, isolated, and exhausting world. It expresses the disappointment, rage, and sadness I feel about the realities of living in America, which have only gotten worse since writing the song in 2016. It’s an acknowledgement that we are in pain, we are in trouble, and we will only get through it together.

Nightswims

by Youth in a Roman Field

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"Nightswims" explores the difficulties of creating and sustaining intimacy in a digitalized, isolated, and exhausting world. It expresses the disappointment, rage, and sadness I feel about the realities of living in America, which have only gotten worse since writing the song in 2016. It’s an acknowledgement that we are in pain, we are in trouble, and we will only get through it together.

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One week and you’re brand new
Arms length and on the move
But clear eyes belong to the fool
And fair skies are black and blue

Well I don’t have faith
Do you blame me?
Well I don’t have faith
Will you tame me?

Take a risk on me
Take a chance on me
Take a risk for me
Take a chance for me

Ten weeks and mining for clues
Little by little by little I lose
You with your eyes on the bruise
And nightswims in blacks and blues

Well I don’t have faith
Do you blame me?
Well I don’t have faith
Will you tame me?

Take a risk on me
Take a chance on me
Take a risk for me
Take a chance for me

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released August 30, 2022
Vocals, Violins, Concert Uke - Claire Wellin
Piano - Scott Stangland
Baritone Uke - Tiffany Topol
Viola - Cassidy Stirtz
Upright Bass - Jamie Mohamdein
Snare - Mike Hanf

Recorded at Virtue and Vice Studios in Brooklyn, NY
Produced by Claire Wellin & Allen Tate
Engineered by Allen Tate
Mixed by Kyle Joseph
Mastered by Tyler McDiarmid

Artwork by Steve Ponzo
Released on Better Company Records

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Surrealist Folk / NYC

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