Swingshift, by R.E. Seraphin

Swingshift

by R.E. Seraphin

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Cassette + Digital Album
Limited edition UK cassette, with artwork created by the band.
UK & EU version on red cassette and shipping from the UK.

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Limited Edition Vinyl - All good record shops worldwide or direct from Mt.St.Mtn (USA) or Tear Jerk (Australia).
Limited Edition Cassette - Dandy Boy Records (USA)

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1.	Playing House 03:08 video	buy track
2.	Big Break 02:51	buy track
3.	Stuck in Reno 01:58	buy track
4.	The Virtue of Being Wrong 01:43	buy track
5.	Miss Grief 03:21	buy track
6.	I'll Be Around 02:49	buy track
7.	This Time There's No Happy Ending 02:15	buy track

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San Francisco Bay Area guitar pop stalwart R.E. Seraphin returns with his EP Swingshift, a joint release via Mt.St.Mtn., Tear Jerk (Australia), Dandy Boy Records (cassette) and Safe Suburban Home (UK cassette). The seven-track home-recorded E.P., featuring both originals and inspired takes on songs by The Wipers and Television Personalities, finds Seraphin joined by colleagues MattBullimore (Mantles), Joel Cusumano (Cocktails), Yea-Ming Chen (Dreamdate, Yea-Ming Chenand the Rumours), Jasper Leach (Tony Molina) and guitarist Owen Kelley (Sleepy Sun).

With the onset of COVID lockdowns, Seraphin rapidly changed his approach to recording, tracking all basics on his iPhone and working with his collaborators via share networks. Rather than feeling constricted by the process, he found a new freedom. “Now, I could record whateverI wanted in my bedroom and send it to whoever I wanted, free of any intra band politics,” he says. “Recording something as I’m writing it has an immediacy that really works for me.” The resultant EPA Room Forever found wide acclaim in the online blog world, firmly establishing Seraphin as a dynamic, multifaceted new voice in independent music.

Seraphin returned to his room and trusty phone last spring to craft his most ambitious work yet in Swingshift. Densely layered, the EP’s sheen brings to mind The Replacements gone psychedelic, Cheap Trick gone to Mars, Cleaners from Venus if they bothered to mix their records. Looking to move on from the muted earth tones dominating much underground music today, he goaded producer Bullimore into piling on the synths, and guitarists Cusumano and Kelley into some surprising guitar acrobatics. “To get away from that sound,” explains R.E., “I pushed for Journey-style solos–a year ago, I would have never even allowed anything like that!” Inspired this round by Ultra Vivid Scene, Miracle Legion and current power-pop maverick Young Guv, Seraphin’s songwriting is delightfully economic, each tune briefly introducing a new sonic world and setting before moving onto the next.

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released May 27, 2022

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Safe Suburban Home Records York, UK

Founded in York in 2018, Safe Suburban Home (SSH) is an independent record label. SSH is all about connecting with new music, that introduction to a band that creates a lasting bond, in the same vein as the great singles clubs and is an incubator for the best new talent around. ... more

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