Swim Deep and Warpaint’s Jenny Lee Lindberg team up on new version of ‘King City’
nme.comSwim Deep have teamed up with Warpaint‘s Jenny Lee Lindberg on a re-worked version of their 2012 single ‘King City’. Check it out below.The ‘JennyLee version’ of ‘King City’ takes on more of a self-referential turn due to the lyrics, “Fuck your romance / I wanna pretend / That Jenny Lindberg is my girlfriend.”Speaking about the new take on the track, frontman Austin Williams said: “10 years down the line Jenny reached out to say she had been aware the song, and was flattered at the sentiment, which was life-affirming to me as that was what the song was all about!
A full-circle moment that’s got me emotional for music.”He continued: “I half expected a cease and desist, but instead we got the best remix I’ve ever heard, the bassline is everything – it’s dark and sexy and I can imagine running through a festival with my mates at 17-years-old to it.”The frontman also explained the background of the song, saying it “was about fleeing the small towns and cities I was raised in, yet keeping love and admiration for the precious youth I spent there.
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