“Who are The Swimmers?” you ask. Why, The Swimmers [MySpace] are a lovely band from Philadelphia that features a husband and wife duo (Steve and Krista Yutzy-Burkey) alongside Rick Sieber and Scott French, who I can’t say aren’t dating, but if they were there’s nothing wrong about that. Their latest record, People Are Soft, will be hitting stores on November 3rd and we wanted to share a little bit with you because well:

1) With this being a follow-up to an album we really liked in 2008 (Fighting Trees), it seems only appropriate.

2) The video for one of their two new singles, “What This World Is Coming To,” debuted with our close friends, The Music Slut and that’s good company to keep.

There’s some plugs, eh?

Check out more goodies (mp3 and video) “after the jump”

[mp3] The Swimmers – “A Hundred Hearts”

“Steve met his wife Krista, the Swimmers’ keyboard player, when she was a harp performance major at a small liberal arts college in Indiana. At the same college, Steve played in various groups with bass player Rick Sieber, who was working towards a degree in Library Science. The three graduated and relocated to Philadelphia, where Steve, in response to an intriguing job listing, became a pipe organ tuner. There, he and drummer Scott French began recording music together as they repaired and tuned massive church organs.

Previous to the formation of The Swimmers, Rick and Steve played for several years in the alt-country group One Star Hotel. In 2005, while writing songs inspired by the John Cheever short story “The Swimmer,” Steve presented the idea of a less serious indie-pop recording project to long-time friends Scott, Rick and Krista. Very quickly these initial recordings “Heaven,” “Pocket Full of Gold” and “All the New Sounds” began to get serious attention and The Swimmers were born. Their piano-pounding, vocal harmony-laden debut album was proclaimed by influential WXPN program director Bruce Warren to be “ the best record not released in 2007,” and Fighting Trees was subsequently picked up for release by MAD Dragon Records.”

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