After three heralded albums, French Kicks have emerged with Swimming - their best album to date and the first French Kicks album to be produced and mixed entirely by the band. The band has always been involved in the production of their albums, but with Swimming (Vagrant Records), their fourth full-length, the band felt that they could best capture the raw beauty of the new songs by recording it themselves.

Singer/multi-instrumentalist Nick Stumpf explains,”The result is that it sounds completely like us and automatically unlike any other records you will hear, because the decisions were all made from an artistic standpoint as opposed to a certain idea of how records are supposed to sound,” Stumpf says. “We were not so much as asked to compromise on anything we wanted to do, and I think you can hear that in the record. We felt totally free. We were very happy and able to be loose and have fun with it, which is so important to every aspect of the record.”