They drown the noise with comeback fire, bad habits, and brutal honesty. Swimming is Sugar Cones' raw, night-drive album where victories and vices show up in the same breath. Populus and Bagheadddd write like they're reporting live from the edge: bouncing back, breaking down, and laughing at the wreckage.
The record moves between confession and threat, with addiction, grief, and paranoia threading through tracks like "Talking Through the Phone," "Yesterday," and "Kgosi." Hooks hit like flashbacks, then the verses turn into sprinting monologues about money, isolation, and the cost of staying alive.
There's a surreal, cinematic streak, from occult flexing on "Constantine" to vanishing acts on "Disappear." Even the humor is sharp, with the interlude "Cowboy Bitch With a Cowboy Dick" skewering ego and bravado in under a minute.
The features deepen the world instead of distracting from it: Eliphas adds mythic heat to "Molotov," Cryptic-X slides in with menace on "Man of the Hour," and Jinx steals breath on "I'm Tommy Wright III Bitch, Meet Your Maker."
Across beat switches and mood swings, the duo keeps their language vivid, dirty, and specific, like diary pages stapled to a police scanner. Under the chaos, Swimming is obsessed with loyalty, brotherhood, and the weird ways people try to cope.
It's music for anyone who's ever tried to outrun their own head and realized it has better cardio. Sugar Cones don't sanitize the story, and that's exactly why it lands. By the end, Swimming feels less like flexing and more like surviving out loud.
Released October, 2025 by Killing Field Records.
Tracked, mixed, and mastered by Bryan "Cryptic-X" Jenkins.
Recorded at Killing Field Records, The Fields.
