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Swim Mountain Cover Beyoncé Track Love On Top

• 19th Jan 2015

London quartet Swim Mountain recently released their debut EP Swim Mountain, a psych-pop collage of sounds fusing ‘60s studio ethics and modern production techniques, on South-London label Hey Moon.

They’ve now shared a cover of Beyoncé’s ‘Love On Top’ – of course they have, what an obvious choice of song for a psych-pop band. Or not.

Swim Mountain frontman, songwriter and producer Tom recently finished writing the band’s debut album and wanted to cover a pop song as a means of cleansing his sonic palette before beginning the recording process, as he explains:

“Initially, it was going to be ‘End Of The Road’ by Boys II Men because it’s one of my favourite songs, the chords are beautiful, totally out-and-out jazz chords and the live band and I play it a lot joking around in rehearsal but it’s been covered so much I decided against it. Even though the original track is about 4 years old I only heard it last year, I hadn’t actually bothered listening to much Beyoncé before that. It sounded like some track Whitney Houston would have done in the 80s. She’s the fucking best. It’s a bit of a laugh. The only difference is that I actually modulate down instead of up at the end, which is strange because I thought it would sound weird but it actually sounds like it still goes up at first? Trippy maaan!”

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