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Swum Baby EP

by Puma Blue

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    2023 Re-press of Puma Blue's debut EP "Swum Baby" on light blue 12" vinyl. Includes printed inner sleeve. Comes in protective sleeve.

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    ALL PROCEEDS will be donated to The Loveland Foundation (thelovelandfoundation.org) & Youth Music UK (youthmusic.org.uk/london)

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    A limited edition 26-page Swum Baby zine containing press shots, BTS photos, scans of Jacob's original lyric book, extended credits list and a foreword by Jacob on Swum Baby and the process of making his debut EP.

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1.
Twisted dark sister ‘round my finger I wish 
Streak of blue, linger you, I feel no kiss
 Creature of my desire, takes us higher
 To not hold your face or feel your embrace, is why I waste But she’s just a phase, just a phase
 Boy yeah she’s easy to replace
 She’s just a phase, just a phase 
Boy yeah you’re tripping out where you lay Silently delighted, I am poisoned slow
 These emerald eyes, reveal that I got to let her go 
Bleeding out my reasons, till the red reaches the ceiling
 Flock of you, flutters through, I wonder if she knew But she’s just a phase, just a phase
 Boy yeah she’s easy to replace 
She’s just a face, just a daze
 Boy next to you she’ll never lay
2.
Soft Porn 02:31
Pick up the fuckin phone I need a warmth of your tone Got my first 20 [straights] Just to smoke it up alone This is isolation This is demon bliss Could I reach for her kiss Could I reach for her kiss If I’m swum baby it’s not your fault I always sunk, I always sunk You ain’t used to a boy who bleeds to the moon It ain’t your fault, I’d sink in salt Scarlet fingers I could move through you But to drown you to disgrace fumes This is isolation This is demonic bliss Could I reach for her kiss Could I reach for her kiss Rhetoric verses I could spill Only to find [drown] myself to limbo wish This is whisky This is ocean bed Baby let it take me instead Let it take me instead
3.
You're my lil lude You're my lil lude You're my little lude (caught you feelin rude by the blue of the moon) You're my lil lude (caught you in a mood by the blue of the lune) My lil lude (caught you breathin' heavy in a moonlit swoon) You're my little lude (yeah I caught you breathin' heavy in the blue of the moon)
4.
Untitled 2 03:30
I'm a slave to not express this love Caught a dove that I can't release, until I cease to feel undone Enter the fool, a crimson stain upon my bluest pool I stall, she breaks delicate on my shore And I try to but I can't ignore How I'd clean every cut, and crush the death That craves her taste, vultures in dark robes of lace I'll mess you up, I'll fuck you up, but with one touch stop pain abrupt A pale white light reflects in her eyes Dangling from my mouth is a string of wasted time, her lips curl 'round but don't touch mine - apart from in my head. In my sins that guard doors and give birth to more, I replay what she said
5.
Want Me 04:26
You said that I don't care, but of course I do How come when I'm alone, I only think of you? I've only been in love, maybe once or twice But now that I've had just a taste you've got me so enticed I used to feel those words that you spoke over me, but now I don't I used to feel those powder blue eyes stare through mine, but now I guess I won't And now I don't know, if you want me so, I guess I'll go You floor me with that style, and if I had a choice I wouldn't slip up everytime that I hear your voice And though it doesn't work, I try desperately To become this great ugly root to a perfect tree I used to feel those words that you spoke over me, but now I don't I used to feel those powder blue eyes stare through mine, but now I guess I won't And now I don't know, if you want me so, I guess I'll go

about

[all tracks written & produced by Jacob Allen]
(Originally released 14 June 2017)

this EP is dedicated to those who lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower fire

these recordings were written & produced in my bedroom between the sleepless nights of autumn 2016 & spring 2017
track 1 recorded mostly at Jake's flat
tracks 2-5 recorded in my room

cover photograph by Kohei Yoshiyuki
graphic design by Casper

all tracks mastered by Guy Davie
track 1 co-produced by Ben Hayes + engineered by Jake Miller
production & all instruments played by myself except:
track 1:
Rudi Creswick - bass
Harvey Grant - sax
Lloyd Carlos - guitar magik
Ellis Dupuy - drums
& track 5:
Chelsea Carmichael - sax

additional thanks:
brother Lucy Lu provided some extra love on track 3 & Lloyd & Harvey brought some mixing tips on tracks 4 + 5
biggest love also to sensei Maxwell Owin for your mystic wisdom
my eternal gratitude to Kohei Yoshiyuki for letting me use your beautiful photography
thank you to Orla Carolin & Jack N Richards for the back-cover doodles
& thank you to Chris Chadwick, who works so hard in the shadows

credits

released June 14, 2017

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