The Swain EP was recorded using a laptop and a 58 in my backyard, bedroom, an oak cavern, the Bowering's living room and a hospital lawn. Christopher Arruda played all the instruments, wrote and sang all the words and decided how loud each part should sound. On one song he used Arlen's dad's guitar and Rex and Sherry's grand piano. It was mastered by Jordan Stringer at Cabin Fever Studios and Daniel Bacharach helped make the box look pretty.

This is a record about lovers. I dedicate these songs to knives in backs, frantic phone calls in the dead of night, tearful goodbyes, past lives and shaky starts. Here's to storming forth dedicated to a fresh wall of sound! Here's to carrying on with delicate imagery and the hope of love conquering! Here's to us all finding a dance in Dakota.