I think the vocals on Swim Swan Swum are what make it hard for me to hear as a mid-90s track; not that people never sang like that back then, but when I imagine hearing it 10 years ago, I think of a band getting one song on an early Simple Machines sampler and never being heard from again because basically nobody could stand them, whereas now it just frames them as late-00s indie-rockers.

Now I’m going to go into a corner and twitch for a while on the occasion of realizing that we can reasonably ascribe a style to the “late 00s” without being engaged in any kind of prediction.

I think the vocals on Swim Swan Swum are what make it hard for me to hear as a mid-90s track; not that people never sang like that back then, but when I imagine hearing it 10 years ago, I think of a band getting one song on an early Simple Machines sampler and never being heard from again because basically nobody could stand them, whereas now it just frames them as late-00s indie-rockers.

Now I’m going to go into a corner and twitch for a while on the occasion of realizing that we can reasonably ascribe a style to the “late 00s” without being engaged in any kind of prediction.

I think the vocals on Swim Swan Swum are what make it hard for me to hear as a mid-90s track; not that people never sang like that back then, but when I imagine hearing it 10 years ago, I think of a band getting one song on an early Simple Machines sampler and never being heard from again because basically nobody could stand them, whereas now it just frames them as late-00s indie-rockers.

Now I’m going to go into a corner and twitch for a while on the occasion of realizing that we can reasonably ascribe a style to the “late 00s” without being engaged in any kind of prediction.

I think the vocals on Swim Swan Swum are what make it hard for me to hear as a mid-90s track; not that people never sang like that back then, but when I imagine hearing it 10 years ago, I think of a band getting one song on an early Simple Machines sampler and never being heard from again because basically nobody could stand them, whereas now it just frames them as late-00s indie-rockers.

Now I’m going to go into a corner and twitch for a while on the occasion of realizing that we can reasonably ascribe a style to the “late 00s” without being engaged in any kind of prediction.