Singer/songwriter Emma Swift has released a new video for “The Resurrection Game,” the deeply personal title track from her forthcoming album, available September 12th via Tiny Ghost Records. “The Resurrection Game,” follows previous singles “No Happy Endings” and “Nothing and Forever/”

“This is a song about love and loss, about how there’s no escaping grief, it comes for us all, about how the more we love, the more we have to lose,” says Emma Swift. “I wrote it after attending an experiential therapy retreat in Northern California called the Hoffman Process. I went to Hoffman because I’d been feeling stuck, and my friend Sarah recommended it to me. It’s a bit of a hippy thing to do, but I’m a bit of a hippy at heart.

“I’m not sure if this kind of retreat is for everyone, but it did help me unearth some complicated feelings, particularly around the way I was brought up, and the inherited beliefs and patterns I was carrying around unconsciously. Naturally, these feelings started to become songs…

“In Calistoga

Where the redwoods grow

I’ve come to

To excavate your bones…

“Redwood trees are towering beauties, ancient and resilient. They are the tallest trees on earth, and can live for thousands of years. The Scottish naturalist, John Muir described them as the cathedrals of nature. I like that. One of the reasons they grow so tall is because they’re able to move and bend with the wind. I learned a lot just by being near them. Mostly about my own flickering life, how small it is in comparison.”

Swift’s first full-length collection of all original material and follow-up to her 2020’s Blonde On The Tracks, the reimagining of eight classic Bob Dylan songs through her own musical perspective.

The Resurrection Game were sown on the heels of a seven-week “nervous breakdown” that saw Swift sectioned in her native Australia. Over a year of recovery followed, a “very fragile” period in which she grappled with what had happened through therapy, medication, and eventually, her art. Working with producer Jordan Lehning (Kacey Musgraves, Rodney Crowell, Caitlin Rose) at Chale Abbey, a residential studio built within a stone barn dating back to the 16th century located on the downs at the southern tip of England’s Isle of Wight, as well as Lehning’s The Duck in East Nashville, Swift assembled a collection of Nashville’s finest, most in-demand players, including pedal steel master Spencer Cullum (Steelism, Miranda Lambert, Angel Olsen), guitarist Juan Solorzano (Devon Gilfillian, Sheryl Crow), bassist Eli Beaird (Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson, James Bay, Luke Bryan), and drummer Dom Billet (Yola, Phosphorescent).

Emma Swift
The Resurrection Game
Tracklist
Tiny Ghost Records

Nothing and Forever
The Resurrection Game
No Happy Endings
Going Where The Lonely Go
Beautiful Ruins
Catholic Girls Are Easy
Impossible Air
How To Be Small
For You And Oblivion
Signing Off With Love

Pre-order The Resurrection Game by Emma Swift HERE