Swimming Towards The Sand Rachel Bobbitt

• 1 Don't Cry 04:15
• 2 Hush 03:47
• 3 Light 02:51
• 4 Hands Hands Hands 04:50
• 5 Remember? 04:20
• 6 I Want It All 04:17
• 7 Furthest Limb 03:40
• 8 Ask Again 02:33
• 9 Deer On The Freeway 03:55
• 10 Life By The Marsh 03:43
• 11 Sweetest Heart 03:16
• 12 Nothing 04:10
• Total Runtime 45:37

Info zu Swimming Towards The Sand

Rising Canadian artist Rachel Bobbitt recently announced her long-awaited debut full-length album "Swimming Towards the Sand".

A natural progression from Bobbitt’s collection of singles and EPs, including The Ceiling Could Collapse (2022) and The Half We Still Have (2023), Swimming Towards the Sand is her most cohesive and expansive work to date: a poignant exploration of grief, girlhood, memory, and return. It centres itself around memories and dreams, and how one can often feel interchangeable with the other. It is only through careful observation and steady rumination that we start to draw meaning and distinctions. The album is full is such reflections—and like the ocean, turns discarded bottles into frosted glass, these memories and dreams of loss, grief, and girlhood become something tangible and true.

Bobbitt, who first gained attention on Vine as a teenager before pulling back from the spotlight, studied jazz and vocal pedagogy at Humber College in Toronto. Over the past few years, she’s opened for acts like Men I Trust and Blonde Redhead and released a pair of EPs that hinted at her range and lyrical depth.

With Swimming Towards the Sand, Bobbitt appears to be making good on that early promise. “Having the water be so consistent and impartial to you, and terrifying and beautiful—it is such a strong presence for me,” she said in a statement. The ocean, for Bobbitt, is not just metaphor but memory—an anchoring force in an album that’s ultimately about reckoning with where you’ve been, and what you’ve had to leave behind.

“The ocean does not care about you at all,” declares Rachel Bobbitt. “That’s what makes something truly awesome—it could and will exist, with or without you.”

Rachel Bobbitt

Rachel Bobbitt
made a name for herself on Vine as a teenager in Nova Scotia, uploading covers of pop hits and all-time classics to the now-defunct social media site.

Life runs in rhythmic loops, from the endless rotations of the earth to the running of tides and yearly rebirth of spring. Rachel Bobbitt knows that the bottom of those cycles can feel pretty chaotic. “Every woman I’ve ever talked to is in some amount of pain almost all the time,” the Toronto-based singer-songwriter says. “That could be physical pain, emotional pain, familial pain, but it’s there in cycles.” On her piercing and profound new EP, The Ceiling Could Collapse, Bobbitt picks through the dizzying rubble of folk and indie rock for moments of resonant emotion and frames them in heartbreaking lyrics and openhearted expanses.

Before reaching this particular iteration of her musical journey, Bobbitt made a name for herself on Vine as a teenager in Nova Scotia, uploading covers of pop hits and all-time classics to the now-defunct social media site. The young Canadian digested a wide range of music, from Frank Ocean to Leonard Cohen, Elliott Smith to My Bloody Valentine, and began incorporating those influences into original songs. But as her profile rose, Bobbitt found herself overwhelmed rather than inspired. “It was exciting to be doing what I loved, but it was difficult to be observed by that many people at that age where I simultaneously wanted to just shut myself in,” she says. “I’m grateful it ended when it did, because it gave me time to step back and think about what I wanted to create for myself.”

Dieses Album enthält kein Booklet