Following the release of their first two singles, “Calling” and “Sunday”, Swimming Pool return with their third single, “Wednesday Kinda Weekend” — a drifting, late-summer ballad dedicated to citrusy air, thoughtless weekends, and a place where the sun doesn’t go. Released in tandem with their debut EP Line Cuts, the track reimagines an earlier Klyl Shifroni solo work into something woozier, softer, and more disoriented — like a memory refracted through glass.
Built on warped ambient textures, layered vocals, and a hazy sense of suspended time, “Wednesday Kinda Weekend” evokes a soft collapse — somewhere between euphoria and exhaustion. Bowed bass and digital smears carry a slow emotional charge, as if watching the sky from underwater. Seraina and Klyl trade delicate vocal fragments that never quite resolve, suggesting a longing that’s as much sonic as it is emotional. The song dissolves the boundaries between space and memory, electronic and acoustic, clarity and blur, making it an ideal entry point into their five-track collection.
Swimming Pool is the collaborative project of Klyl Shifroni and Seraina Fässler, a duo based between The Hague and Zürich. They met while studying at the Institute of Sonology, bonding over a shared passion for songwriting, digital synthesis, and code-based composition. Their music fuses experimental electronics with emotionally direct songwriting, balancing intimacy with abstraction and warmth with fracture. Born out of late-night DJ sets in abandoned garages, their sound evolved from instinctive improvisation into a layered process shaped by bowed bass textures, processed vocals, and subtle sampling techniques. The result is a sonic language that blends ambient minimalism, lo-fi tenderness, and punk-inflected edges — evoking a world that is both carefully constructed and deeply vulnerable.
About Line Cuts
Line Cuts is a slow-burning exploration of the tension between clarity and distortion, closeness and distance. Across its five tracks, the duo craft a fragile architecture of sound — melodic phrases hover before falling apart, vocals are layered like dust, and rhythms dissolve before they can form. Rather than seeking catharsis, the EP lingers in the spaces between feelings: longing, memory, repetition, and collapse.
The EP opens with “Calling”, a whispered conversation with the self, built on bare vocals and pulsing bass arpeggios that capture the quiet tension of words spoken just before dawn. “Sunday” follows, unraveling the power of superstition and ritual through sparse arrangements and poetic repetition, while “Candle” — a reinterpretation of Leonard Cohen’s One of Us Cannot Be Wrong — bends tradition into abstraction through layered harmonies and a clumsy midnight waltz of bowed bass.
“Wednesday Kinda Weekend” embodies a weightless sense of heat and detachment, folding time so that midweek becomes weekend and sunlight feels like a mirage. The EP closes with “Once In A Blue Moon”, a seven-minute ambient drift that swells into a dense fog of melodic fragments, processed harmonics, and eroding silence.
The name Swimming Pool comes from a photographic series of hurricane-damaged backyard pools — a metaphor for the overlooked, the fractured, and the quiet beauty found in ruin. In that spirit, Line Cuts invites listeners to sit with ambiguity, offering a soundtrack for moments when emotion surfaces slowly, in waves.
