Trailer Swift - Variant

Dying Scene: Premiere

“Cross My Heart” is slow-burn space rock born of broken promises and retrospection. The first single off their forthcoming Variant LP, out June 16 via Mint 400 Records, rides loud-quiet waves that mirror the ups and downs of a soul getting laid bare. It’s there in the lyrics, it’s there in the precise rhythmic shifts. “I’ll cross my heart then hope to die in a way that we all can agree on” – over a spare, stuttering beat – we’ve all been there, we just weren’t able to put it like that.

Recorded with Ethan Dussault (Caspian, On the Might of Princes, Malleus) at New Alliance in Somerville, MA in 2022, and mastered with Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East in 2023, Variant is the follow-up to 2020’s 6-song EP You Are Not What You Do. The band has absorbed the best elements of fellow riffy volume-pedalers like Hum, Nothing, Pup and SDRE. And they paid attention – nailing that sense of isolation, unfulfillment, underlying doom without spelling it out. If you know, you know: “There was a dream. Not what it seemed in the end. But I like to pretend that it was.” And there it is, a healthy dose of resolution in a song that might dwell in the dark but is also, quite simply, a blast. Trailer Swift has been described by fans as Angular, High energy, Fugazi and At The Drive In.