Sleep My PrettiesSwanning · 2016

pitchfork

““I am proper in my hate,” sings Philadelphia's Cynthia Ann Schemmer in the lead single from her new indie pop project, Swanning. “I am relentless in my pained state.” These lyrics hint at a deep, irrepressible fury, but the music grounding “Sleep My Pretties” comes from another place. (Schemmer also plays guitar in the upbeat, jangly quartet Radiator Hospital, and her Swanning bandmates come from ”