After a rollercoaster of personal reflections and extreme professional ups and downs, the quintet - singer Austin 'Ozzy' Williams, bassist Cavan McCarthy, keyboardist James Balmont, guitarist Robbie Wood and drummer Thomas Fiquet - emerge in 2024 having navigated a creative rebirth following a close collaboration with solo artist and producer Bill Ryder-Jones.

British indie pop band Swim Deep will release their fourth and most raw, affective and modern album to date, Theres a big star outside, in summer 2024.

It's an album rooted in the changes Ozzy himself experienced when he turned 30: getting married, becoming a father and even losing loved ones. But it's also an album indebted to the more incremental revelations that only come as you get older and really sit with yourself: "My friend said the best thing his therapist had told him was to imagine himself as a five-year-old and describe what you look like," he says.

"I immediately saw this incredibly brave and confident but extremely anxious child, and I think I've had all these feelings inside me from the start."

The road to the album has thus been one of deep introspection, expressed through the acoustic guitars and flourishes of a Mellotron keyboard - one of the finest musical exports from their hometown of Birmingham.