Austin Tofte, the digi-centric singer/songwriter who popularly composes under the moniker Swimming With Dolphins, completed the debut full-length this March, apparently spending much of his time dreaming up ways to take his exciting brand of contemporary synth-pop into even broader, grander directions. WATER COLOURS, the band’s debut on Tooth & Nail Records, comes after 2008’s AMBIENT BLUE EP and was produced by Aaron Sprinkle (Anberlin, The Almost) as well as Zack Odom and Kenneth Mount (Cartel, Mayday Parade).
Spanning 10 tracks, WATER COLOURS represents the two-plus years Tofte has spent writing since releasing AMBIENT BLUE; the locations where it was written and/or recorded range from random places on the road, to urban Minneapolis, to the Minnesota countryside, chronicling multiple stages of Tofte’s personal life along the way. It’s so deep and sublimely arranged, it sounds like Tofte almost had a little too much time to work his magic.
