“Nothing” from my debut album, Swimming Towards The Sand, out now: https://ffm.to/rachelbobbitt-swimmingtowardsthesand
Lyrics:
On a dark and winding highway
Headlights like an arm in a black lake
Someone’s singing something from the front seat
Someone’s singing something so sweet
Ooooh
Ooooh
You mother dancing in the eighties
Sunning with your sister in late spring
Maybe it’s the act of waking
Maybe it’s a wave finally breaking
Ooooh
Ooooh
A neighbourhood at night, hot & empty
A field all full of light, walls of TVs
Maybe it’s the sky draped and blushing
Maybe not a thing, maybe
A natural progression from Bobbitt’s collection of singles and EPs, including The Ceiling Could Collapse (2022) and The Half We Still Have (2023), Swimming Towards the Sand is her most cohesive and expansive work to date: a poignant exploration of grief, girlhood, memory, and return. It centres itself around memories and dreams, and how one can often feel interchangeable with the other. It is only through careful observation and steady rumination that we start to draw meaning and distinctions. The album is full of such reflections—and like the ocean, turns discarded bottles into frosted glass, these memories and dreams of loss, grief, and girlhood become something tangible and true.
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