Swimming Pool finds beauty in meditative new single "Sunday"

Swimming Pool, the avant-garde indie pop duo consisting of Klyl Shifroni and Seraina Fässler, is back with a quiet storm of a single called "Sunday". It's the kind of song that leans in, whispering truths we all know but can hardly bear, the subtle weirdness of the rites we go through to try to feel just a little bit less unmoored.

Taken from their debut EP "Line Cuts" due by August 15 via Fog & Co, "Sunday" is spartan in architecture, but emotionally massive. Simple in its instrumentation, the song is also less a workout in flash than in finely wrought atmosphere. Here, Klyl's gentle string work and bowed textures merge with Seraina's carefully processed electronics and airy percussion in a manner that is at once up close and otherworldly.

"Sunday" dismantles the comforting peculiarities of human behavior, those individual rituals, including having a good luck charm with you, wishing on things, and wandering across grass to find a four-leaf clover. It notices them gently and peels them back to reveal one's openness. Using poetic repetition and sparseness, Swimming Pool leaves the hollowness of such comforts to resonate in the silence between notes.

Shifroni and Fässler met at the Institute of Sonology, and their mutual inclination towards digital synthesis and non-traditional songwriting is evident throughout this track. But for all their experimental antecedents, there isn't anything extraordinary or aloof about this place. "Sunday" is a day of emotional resonance, an exploration of control, chaos, and the fragile rituals we use to navigate between the two.

The production is brilliant but not overworked. With engineering by Constantin Stemmler, mixing by Ben Avgay, and mastering by Enyang Urbiks, the space is finely crafted, allowing ample room for the delicate themes of the song to breathe.

Swimming Pool may work at the margins of genre, but with "Sunday," they've hit on something more universal. It is the kind of song that hangs with you, not because it cajoles attention but because it understands the quiet potency of reflection. It's superficially gentle. But beneath, it cuts deep, not unlike the patterns it so quietly challenges.

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