Swapmeet’s anticipated debut album has landed after a whirlwind year for the Adelaide four-piece. Mount Zero is out now via Winspear following it’s placement as Feature Album on triple j this week. This weekend, the group are touring the East Coast for a series of intimate in-store performances and signings. Tickets are on sale now for their headline world tour. LISTEN / PURCHASE MOUNT ZERO HERE + BUY TIX HERE.

Mingling airy sweetness with jagged surrealism, Mount Zero transmutes so many of the regrets and uncertainties of young adulthood into a burgeoning, newfound confidence. Named after the road sign passed across many interstate drives, it would become a beacon to another portal for Swapmeet. A place they’d never visit, but indicates a shifting landscape. “It became a symbol for people we’d see but never meet. When you’re always in a different city and trying new things, there are a lot of experiences you observe but never get to fully explore,” says Maxwell Elphick.

Circling common themes:  first loves, first heartbreaks, first embarrassments, first disasters – the ways that the early years of adulthood can shatter your expectations about how life is supposed to go. Mount Zero bottles the tooth-gritting intensity of feeling yourself change at the cellular level under reality’s unyielding pressures, it’s a tribute to all the lives that can never be lived, all the paths that will never be followed – and an ode to the one that lies just ahead, too.

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‘I Know!’ lets precise fingerpicking buckle beneath hammer swings of bass on the giddy ‘2 C U’. ‘Halfway’ drapes its cinematic imagery and pointed witticisms in overlapping, mixed-fidelity guitar figures, while the delectably catchy ‘Bonny’ molts its suntanned skin to crescendo in a noise burst. Mount Zero caps off an unprecedented period of elevation for Swapmeet.

Since setting the year ablaze with their Winspear label signing, Swapmeet played 13 showcases in Austin and were anointed “the winner of SXSW”; their triple j-playlisted single ‘I Know!’ landed AMRAP charting on debut at #2 nationally and #1 on Rock/Metal following over a hundred rabid spins in its first week – a reaction that never let up with each new single and labelled globally as Rolling Stone’s Artist You Need To Know, Unearthed’s Feature Artist, NME’s Radar Artist, Stereogum’s Band to Watch and Apple Music’s Up Next artist.

Swapmeet have accumulated a staggering list of DSP editorial playlisting and cover placement worldwide, quietly matching the organic reach of their breakout ‘Ceiling Fan’ on the heels of a million streams. Theirs was also the most coveted Phoenix Central Park ballot entry to date. This all culminates in a debut world tour later this year, including Pitchfork Festival Paris and London, and dates supporting Wolf Alice at Sydney Opera House Forecourt and Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens.

Mount Zero firmly establishes the moment the Adelaide four-piece come into their own. Look through a keyhole, and you might see something on the other side of the door you can’t quite reach yet. Just as the beacon an uncanny plaque would come to represent, Swapmeet’s journey through Mount Zero attests the transformative power of that potential. See all in-store signings and tour routing info BELOW.