Nov. 10 th
2009

Swimfail has been discontinued. Please visit the music section for free downloads of all releases, including the new and final album Vermin.

From the liner notes on Vermin:

---

I suddenly feel that I cannot continue this-- Swimfail, as a project and a habit, must be terminated. I feel as though I am finally able to step through the exit I've been staring down all this time... What I once considered cathartic has become counter-productive and very nearly dishonest.

There is so much I sing and scream and speak on this album that I do not mean-- old words, angry words that I have kept and preserved and crushed and twisted until I no longer recognized what they only could be-- words I thought I meant but which truly have no place in my life.

The lines that I do mean, I mean with every ounce of nostalgia and longing and sense of self that I can possibly muster. I need nothing else-- only my honesty and feelings toward whatever I face, and I find less and less of that here the more I look.

Time to stop drowning.

---

...I recognize my technical and musical accomplishments in this project, but I have no choice but to distance myself from it. I feel very nearly repulsed looking back on much of Swimfail's output with a clearer perspective and I must leave it behind in favor of more genuine and honest things.

~Josiah Tobin