If one thing is clear from the offset of revelatory fourth album ‘There’s A Big Star Outside’, it’s that Swim Deep is no longer the same band you’ve always known. After a rollercoaster of personal reckonings and extreme professional highs and lows, the quintet emerged in 2024 having navigated a creative rebirth.
The album exists outside the highs and lows experienced by the band, it’s one that’s less about chasing the next rungs of success and more about really nailing their flag to the mast as artists, as adults and as a group who were always in it for more than just fleeting scenes and early buzz. “There’s A Big Star Outside” is Swim Deep at their most raw and resonant—lyrically mature, musically captivating, and brimming with warm, magnetic hooks. It’s a bold step into confident, uncharted territory, pairing a more mature sound with a new lyrical outlook. It was met with great critical-acclaim, picking up wide ranging support from NME, DIY, Dork, Clash, The New Cue, Rolling Stone UK, Record Collector and The Line Of Best Fit as well as BBC Radio 1 and 6 Music.