SWMRS

“April In Houston” is the latest single from the Bay Area group, SWMRS. It will be on their forthcoming album, “Berkeley’s On Fire” due out on February 15^th via Fueled By Ramen/Elektra. The new track amplifies the band’s existing indie-garage sound with melodic tunes and choruses. SWMRS collaborated with producer Rich Costey (Muse, Death Cab For Cutie) to get the experimental new sound heard in “April In Houston.” Along with the new song is a video featuring co-front-man Cole Becker dragging around a chair through the city. Becker directed the music video along with Jarod Taber and his sister Marki Becker.

“When we were writing these songs, we were very conscious of our role in creating a space for people to escape from the nonstop negative media cycle,” Becker says. “It’s a strange time to be young; our generation knows the duality of feeling like an unstoppable force for change in one moment and a powerless wreck in the next. “We wanted these songs to document that feeling we’ve observed closely in ourselves in the people we’ve shared our music with over the past three years,” he says.

SWMRS was formed in Oakland, California in 2004 by Cole Becker and Joey Armstrong, with Beckers's brother Max Becker joining only a few weeks afterwards. The band released a demo and a string of EPs from 2008 to 2010. Their first album, “Don't Be a Dick,” was put in 2011 and then their second album, “Lost at Seventeen,” was released in 2013. The band's third studio album, “Drive North” and their first under the name SWMRS, was released in 2016.

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