7.11.2011
For Immediate Release
Dolphins Swimming releases 1st Album September 23rd!
CHICAGO, Illinois–
Two-piece indie/folk/Americana band Dolphins Swimming is releasing their first album Dolphins Swimming (self-titled) as well as a 5 song B-SIDES EP on the first day of Autumn, September 23rd, 2011 (via Sweet Goodness Music). The album is current available pre-release on iTunes and other related downloading sites.
Download the single Country: http://www.country.sweetgoodnessmusic.com (please share this link!)
Download the single Worrying My Life Away http://www.worryingmylifeaway.sweetgoodnessmusic.com (please share this link!)
Listen to the album here: http://www.dolphinsswimming.sweetgoodnessmusic.com (please share this link!)
Download the full album here: (please DON’T share this link! Press link ONLY.)
Download the full B-SIDES EP here: (please DON’T share this link! Press link ONLY.)
Dolphins Swimming formed in Chicago in 2008. Travis Lee Wiggins is the lead songwriter, singing and switching off between guitar and banjo as well as taking care of producing/recording duties. Allison Trumbo & Elisabeth Victoria Johnson overlay sweet melodic violin lines. The music is sparse and up-close and the content of the songs are brutally honest & personal. The recordings have captured the musicians in solitary without overdubs, a true image of their playing.
Wiggins tried to do something different with the content of the songs compared to his previous sporadic songwriting in his other projects. As inspiration, he took the previous year of his life, 2009-2010, and tried to compose story about what happened to him during that tumultuous year. “The songs that I really loved to sing were the ones that meant the most to me, something that was personal, and I wanted to try to write about what was going on in my life.” These experiences weren’t the happiest moments of his life by any means. “I wanted to capture it all….I don’t think music should be all about happiness, it should also be about coping, and trying to live with the way you find yourself or the situation you are in. Sometimes things aren’t always happy. I wanted brutal honesty. I didn’t want to hide behind sweet sounding phrases that in the end didn’t mean anything or could be open to interpretation.”
“Country” was Wiggins missing his days growing up in Indiana and not being gridlocked in Chicago. It’s a song about missing youth. “Rule of Thumb”, “It Wasn’t Long Ago”, and “Stuck in Your Ways” are about longing for a better life, and trying to change. “Lie” & “Uneternally Yours” hauntingly describe other parts of human relationships that aren’t so apt to be represented in a song.
Wiggins produced & recorded Dolphins Swimming. “What I wanted to do was really capture the way Allison and I sounded together in a room. Some may call it stripped down, but I think the production of the album is an honest representation of the songs and who we are. I didn’t want a million overdubs or anything double tracked. I don’t even know if people know what that sounds like anymore. You have 2 piece bands that on their recording it’s essentially every part of them doubled or quadrupled and played in chorus.”
Dolphins Swimming has 13 tracks on the full album, and an additional EP with 5 Bonus tracks. The album is available through iTunes and most related downloading websites.
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Official Website: www.dolphinsswimming.sweetgoodnessmusic.com
Genre – folk, Americana, gypsy, pop, indie, rock, singer/songwriter, minimal
Like Artists – Nick Drake, Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, Conor Oberst, M.Ward
Press Contact:
Travis Lee Wiggins,
Sweet Goodness
mail (at) sweetgoodnessmusic (dot) com
www.dolphinsswimming.sweetgoodnessmusic.com