Swearin'
| Swearin' | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US |
| Genres | Alternative, Emo |
| Years active | 2012–2015 |
| Labels | Salinas Records, Merge Records |
| Associated acts | P.S. Eliot, Waxahatchee, The Ackleys, Bad Banana, Dear Marje, Allison Crutchfield |
| Members | Allison Crutchfield Kyle Gilbride Keith Spencer Jeff Bolt |
Swearin' was a Philadelphia-based musical group made up of Allison Crutchfield, singer/guitarist Kyle Gilbride, bassist Keith Spencer and drummer Jeff Bolt. They released two albums and an EP. The band split in 2015 and Crutchfield embarked on a solo career.
Born in 1989, Allison Crutchfield and her twin sister Katie first formed the Ackleys in their native Alabama in 2004. They recorded one self-titled album and an EP "Forget Forget, Derive Derive". After three years, they formed the band P.S. Eliot in 2007 and released two albums, Introverted Romance In Our Troubled Minds (2009), and Sadie (2011) both on Salinas Records. They disbanded in 2011, and Allison Crutchfield moved to New York where she formed Swearin' with Kyle Gilbride, previously of Big Soda. Kate Crutchfield remained in Alabama and performed solo under the name Waxahatchee. Both groups would often tour together.
Their first release was a demo EP entitled What a Dump, released in 2011. In 2012, they released their debut album Swearin'. In 2013, they released their second album, Surfing Strange. Salinas Records re-released the album What a Dump in 2014.
Band members Allison Crutchfield, Kyle Gilbride and Keith Spencer all contributed to Waxahatchee's second studio album, Cerulean Salt (2013).
In February 2015, Swearin' broke up, with band members Allison Crutchfield and Kyle Gilbride both ending their relationship with one another that same year. Crutchfield spent time in her sister band on tour throughout the year while working on new material. She signed to Merge Records in July 2016 and embarked on a solo tour in October of that year.
In January 2017 Crutchfield released the Jeff Zeigler-produced solo album Tourist in This Town on Merge Records. She described the record as "visceral, and a huge part of me processing these changes that I was going through". The album was preceded by the single "I Don't Ever Wanna Leave California".
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