Swimmers Jackson

London-based Dubliner **Louis Brennan** is a singer-songwriter in the folk tradition.

His folk however aren’t the field hands and travelling minstrels of yore but the

repressed middle managers and ennui-ridden urbanites of late-stage capitalism.

They populate tales of bad sex, half-drunk commutes and interpersonal

claustrophobia delivered in Brennan’s cracked baritone, at times embarrassingly

intimate, at times spuriously broad, peppered with pitch-black humour.

Brennan’s debut album Dead capital was released in 2018 and describe by

Americana Uk as "an outstanding album" deep, dark and demanding of

attention&quot; It garnered favourable comparisons to Kris Kristofferson, Guy Clark and

Leonard Cohen.

His eagerly awaited second LP Love Island , recorded mid-pandemic at the

legendary Rockfield Studios in Wales and mixed at Abbey Road was released in

October ‘23 and has been called “An essential album for our times” by Lonesome

Highway, with Brennan’s sharp tongue delving further into his dystopian vision of society

**Swimmers Jackson** was formerly a three-piece in Dublin, releasing two EPs under

the name ‘Swimmers’, before moving to London and striking out solo.

This new found confidence led to the recording of nine new songs between 2017-2019 which eventually saw the release of his debut album Murmuration on May 8th

2020 (RTÉ Album of the Week May 2020).

With no opportunity to tour given it was the very start of a two year pandemic,

Jackson took to writing as many songs as possible to document the feelings of that

time before heading back into a studio in Limerick between lockdowns over

Christmas 2021 and St. Patrick’s Day 2022. Armed with a handful of songs about

loss of identity, an uncertain future, concerns with society's direction, and getting

older against your will, the resulting album Now Is All is both hard fought and hard

won.

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