Heartbreaker
TBA, CIRCA SUMMER 2025
Swofford’s album-in-progress since the release of Friendly Skies in 2022, this album’s release has taken a droplet approach: slowly trickling out a single or two every couple of months. It began with “Bad Boyfriend“ in March of 2023, and has continued through “Oh No,“ “Plastic,“ “Can’t Resist,“ and “Girlfriend,” with new single “Drive“ expected in Fall 2024. The album can likely be expected in Summer 2025.
Kiss EP
August 9th, 2024
In May of 2024, Swofford asked his fans a silly question: “Artists don’t release enough music,“ he said, “what if I just released 3 EPs this summer?“ his fans responded with enthusiasm, and so Swofford got to work. And he delivered: before May was out, a remix EP of his song “Girlfriend,“ by the end of June, a selection of unreleased cuts from “Friendly Skies.“ Kiss EP was the culmination of that 3-EP summer, a fully original project full of 80s-inspired tracks full of sparkle and heart. A concept EP, Kiss tells the story of a budding romance across four retro pop gems: from an initial crush, to early dates, to the first… well… kiss, to real, sincere commitment.
Ulterior Motives
June 25, 2023
In Summer 2023, I stumbled upon a Shaiivalley video essay about a song believed to be lost. Since identified in Spring 2024 as "Ulterior Motives" by Christopher Saint Booth and Phillip Adrian Booth, only a 17-second clip was known to exist at the time. With 1980s synth-pop being one of my favorite genres, I created a speculative reconstruction of the song in a few hours as a songwriting exercise, placing the snippet as the end of a pre-chorus and the start of a chorus. The story of the search for "Ulterior Motives" is a testament to the power of the internet's collective fervor, and I will forever remember witnessing that crescendo: from the spread of the mystery to the fan theories, to the amusing discovery of the song's true, salacious origins. Thank you all for your support, and thank you to Christopher Saint Booth for being so helpful in the process of getting this interpolation licensed.
(via Swofford, Youtube)
FRIENDLY SKIES
JUNE 10, 2022
Beginning Work in August 2020, Swofford’s second album takes heavy influence from early-2010s synthpop and indietronica. The album features a computerized and spacey synthesized sonic palate. The songs, mostly written between 2020 and 2021, represent the duality of isolation as something beautiful and agonous. The album was preceded by singles “Get With Me,“ “I Don’t Remember Anymore,“ “Get Real,” “Be Somebody,” and “Let it Ring.” (Read More)
BEDFORD MALL
July 24, 2020
Written over the course of the Spring 2020 lockdowns and released in July, Swofford’s debut album Bedford Mall is an inspired work of experimental synthpop, blending an 80s sonic palate with a conceptual mall theme, daringly blending vaporwave and pop. The album was preceded by singles “Pop Theatre“ and “ILOVEYOU,“ and followed by singles “Aquaplex,“ “$19.99,“ and “Going Up.“ (Read More)
Earlier Work
Before Work Began on Bedford Mall, Swofford had released 2 lo-fi chillhop tracks, “mist u” in November 2019, and “Lofi 2“ in April 2020.