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Indie88 Premiere: Seth Swirsky wants to remind you that ‘the sun still shines’ on new single ‘Sunny Day’

Indie-pop artist Seth Swirsky has shared his new track “Sunny Day,” premiering now on Indie88.

“Sunny Day” marks the first single from Swirsky’s forthcoming album, Songs From The Green Couch, out April 8th via Lollipop Records. The gritty tune has a ’60s sensibility, with sweet harmonies and wailing guitar lines.

“All of these offbeat, chaotic images of ballerinas posing on cherry trees and wheels spinning backwards and broken clocks came to me when I first got the melody for the song,” Seth Swirsky explains. “Then I thought, none of that matters–just as long as the ‘sun’s shining.’ That’s kind of my philosophy of life– that even in the midst of the everyday, omnipresent chaos of our lives, the sun still shines – and if you can stop and feel it on your face, it’s a reminder that life is so good.”

Listen to “Sunny Day” below.
 

 
“We all have a ‘safe space’ – a place where we can go and escape from the world. The green couch in my art room in my house is such a space. It was there where most of the songs on this album were written, either on guitar or with lyrics–thus, the title, Songs From The Green Couch,” Seth Swirsky adds of the album.

The record was engineered by Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Rob Campanella. He introduced Swirsky to The Triptides’ Glenn Brigman and Brendan Peleo-Lazar. Together, the three of them made up the core of the album.

“The record was a two year process: I started writing and recording the record at the beginning of a serious new relationship I was having – it continued during a very painful breakup,” Seth Swirsky says. “Thus, the album oscillated between many hi’s and lo’s for me personally, which are reflected in the lyrics.”

Check out the tracklist for Songs From The Green Couch below.
 

Songs From The Green Couch Tracklist:

01 – “Sunny Day”
02 – “I Don’t Wanna Lose You”
03 – “Cashmere Sweaters”
04 – “Whatever Happened To…”
05 – “Dead”
06 – “Every Time”
07 – “Becky”
08 – “Making it Up As We Go Along”
09 – “I’m In a You Kind of Mood”
10 – “Rose Avenue”
11 – “Susie Sunshine”
12 – “What Was I Thinking?”
13 – “September Sunday”
14 – “New Painting”
15 – “American Bar”

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