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Swimwear (aka Tim Derricourt) began its life at the SXSW festival. Touring with his own psychedelic art rock band, Dappled Cities, Derricourt was struck by performers such as Washed Out and Toro Y Moi, creating immersive, psychedelic dance music and performing it with joyful abandon, on stage, on their own. Over the next while, he knocked out a bunch of tunes on the road, on a laptop, combining the homespun DIY aesthetic of songwriters like Dan Deacon and Panda Bear with his love of grand pop crooners David Bowie, The Style Council, Pet Shop Boys and Damon Albarn. 2012 saw the release of his first EP, The Kissing Machine, and the well-received “Easy High”, a blissed-out track reminiscent of early Beach House or a watery Dennis Wilson, earning him a prime spot on blog indie shuffle and favourable reviews. He followed this up with shows and tours with the likes of Walk the Moon and Kishi Bashi before heading back into the studio (bedroom) to complete EPs 2 and 3. Sticking to the upbeat, camp crooning of his first release, Low Summer and High Summer saw further impact, with the anthemic “Hold On” and taught groove of “Cannonball” making further waves online and catching the attention of radio. For Night Air, Derricourt took a very different approach. Having fallen in love with Richard Yates’ 1962 novel Revolutionary Road and its tale of suburban angst and alienation, Derricourt returned to the laptop to write a single song from the perspective of April, the maligned and desperate 50’s housewife, trapped in a cookie-cutter suburban world. The song “Night Air” emerged. Not wanting to ignore Frank’s story, he wrote a companion song. From there, what began as a song-writing experiment bloomed into a fully fleshed-out world, a concept album whittled down from 30 songs to 7 expansive tracks that chart the origins and disintegration of a great love in a time of great change. Replacing the gated snares and driving kick of earlier work, Derricourt chose a more atmospheric style, drawing on influences like The Blue Nile, Majical Cloudz and Brian Eno to craft an ambient, misty world that perfectly captures those late-night feelings of isolation and uncertainty but also the simple, individual joy of being alone, on the road, after midnight, with nowhere to go and no one expecting you back. Night Air is due for release in 2020, with first single “Happyness” out now where all music is heard.