This morning was a good morning, I was running on time and everything was going well. To add to this day, I received a notification from SoundCloud telling me Swiss Lips had released some new music, something any fan will know doesn’t happen very often. Exciting stuff!
‘Got it bad’ is yet another brilliant song from the Manchester band. It has the unmistakable Swiss Lips feel, with Sam Hammond’s vocals and fast dance rhythm reserved for most of their tracks. I listened to the song twice and knew it was great, after this I went about my day as usual, not knowing the somber news that came with this sound.
Sadly we are no more. Our 2nd & final album 'Overflowing futures' will be released on Friday. Thank you for the love. http://t.co/U2rjtDsjdi
— S W I S S L I P S (@SwissLips) August 17, 2015
It was only in the afternoon that I found out on Twitter that Swiss Lips are “no more”. Yes, it was hard for me to believe too, but the Pop Sorcerers are dead. This was an incredibly sad moment for me, and the ICM team. We are all Massive fans of Swiss Lips, personally they are what got me into smaller, unsigned bands. One of the ICM team was even lucky enough to see them live at Bush Hall.
A few fans took to Twitter to express their sorrow,
https://twitter.com/kylesvineface/status/633287224621203456
https://twitter.com/alicee1303/status/633356925082673152
We loved many things about Swiss Lips, to say we were massive fans was a slight understatement. Two of us even had matching T-Shirts!
"We did it completely by accident" they said. What do you think? @SwissLips pic.twitter.com/gx3wkYg8ul
— Mr Sweet Giblets (@lilthicc_) April 1, 2015
We loved Barrington
Love this guy. #Barrington #Bazza #Wizard #danz pic.twitter.com/qacH2PG3lh
— S W I S S L I P S (@SwissLips) September 16, 2014
We loved the insanity on their social media
It all makes sense now, Trump got the almanac. pic.twitter.com/qFWNVou2VY
— S W I S S L I P S (@SwissLips) August 16, 2015
We loved the retro graphics
And we loved the wonderfully individual sound that they were able to produce
We will never forget Swiss Lips, they are one of the factors that lead us to believe we could build IndieCentralMusic into a fully functional blog. We may have never been able to get this far without them as we wrote an article about them that became, and still is one of the most viewed articles on the blog.
Thank you Swiss Lips, Thank you for the crazy tunes.
