Swimming (French Kicks album)

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Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Billboard	Favorable link
The Daily Mississippian	Favorable link
IGN	Favorable link
Nylon	Favorable link
Pitchfork Media	7.6/10 link
PopMatters	link
Spin	link
The Village Voice	Favorable link
The Washington Post	Favorable link

Swimming is the fourth full-length album by New York-based indie rock band French Kicks. Their first self-produced album, Swimming is marked by a more stripped-down sound than is found on their previous albums. Explaining the recording process, guitarist Josh Wise said that the band "used a lot of first and second takes and tried to preserve a sense of immediacy and discovery that comes from putting things down before you really have a chance to think too hard." It was released on March 31, 2008, receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews.

Track listing

1. "Abandon" – 3:56
2. "Over the World" – 4:26
3. "Carried Away" – 3:29
4. "New Man" – 4:38
5. "Said So What" – 4:16
6. "Atlanta" – 4:48
7. "Love in the Ruins" – 3:38
8. "With the Fishes" – 3:39
9. "The Way You Arrive" – 4:19
10. "All Our Weekends" – 4:03
11. "Sex Tourists" – 3:29
12. "This Could Go Wrong" – 3:42

External links

• French Kicks official website