TRACK REVIEW: Swindled feat. Lottie Willis – Dear Past Life

There have been a few tracks in recent years centred around writing to a past version of oneself, including the very decent, unambiguously named Reverend & The Makers offering A Letter To My 21 Year Old Self. Perhaps this speaks of a melancholy smog that we’re all navigating, but the irony here is that Swindled’s cynical, catchy, anthemic Dear Past Life would very much be at home in the mid to late nineties with its melodic and lyrical promise of a brighter future –if not a perfect one.Vocalists Jonny and Lottie remark on the lack of rocket fuelled cars in the present day with a patient verse-chorus-verse arrangement that packs a lot into four and half minutes.