Swimming Paul- Smiling Through The Pain 2
Swimming Paul’s music has always lived in the push-and-pull between euphoria and melancholy; the rare kind of electronic music that can make you cry while your body keeps moving. On Smiling Through the Pain 2 (out October 24 via Headroom Records), the French-born, London-based producer doubles down on that emotional duality, delivering an album that feels as much like a diary as it does a DJ set.
Over the course of 15 tracks, Paul stitches together late-night catharsis, suburban nostalgia, and the jagged tenderness of early adulthood. The record is sequenced like an unbroken night out: the giddy anticipation, the sudden moments of reflection, the quiet comedown as the sun edges in. It’s an album that refuses to treat joy and sadness as opposites, they coexist here, often in the same chord progression.
Since debuting in 2023, Swimming Paul has quietly built an empire on emotional resonance: 150 million streams across platforms, 1.9 million monthly listeners on Spotify and more than 50 editorial placements (including Dance Party, Crying on the Dancefloor, Electronic Rising….), 10,000+ radio spins worldwide, and sold-out tours across Europe and North America. His sound has earned co-signs from BBC Radio 1, Triple J, KCRW, Sirius XM and a wave of DJs who value melody as much as momentum.
Tracklist:
- Driving Fast (with Beau Neptune)
- Different Time
- Still Fading (with Alecc Crisostomo)
- Direct With It (with Beau Neptune)
- Mutt
- Stay Blessed (with Alecc Crisostomo)
- Hard2Sleep (with Beau Neptune)
- Drinking To Get Drunk
- All My Fault (with Thals)
- Shine A Light (with Zayden)
- Maximum
- Liza M1 (with Liza Flume)
- 20 Anymore
- Holly (with Junior Simba)
- We F-Up (with Liza Flume)
UPC > 3516628500015
Format > New Vinyl
Label > Unity Records
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Release Date: 01.09.2026
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Swimming Paul’s music has always lived in the push-and-pull between euphoria and melancholy; the rare kind of electronic music that can make you cry while your body keeps moving. On Smiling Through the Pain 2 (out October 24 via Headroom Records), the French-born, London-based producer doubles down on that emotional duality, delivering an album that feels as much like a diary as it does a DJ set.
Over the course of 15 tracks, Paul stitches together late-night catharsis, suburban nostalgia, and the jagged tenderness of early adulthood. The record is sequenced like an unbroken night out: the giddy anticipation, the sudden moments of reflection, the quiet comedown as the sun edges in. It’s an album that refuses to treat joy and sadness as opposites, they coexist here, often in the same chord progression.
Since debuting in 2023, Swimming Paul has quietly built an empire on emotional resonance: 150 million streams across platforms, 1.9 million monthly listeners on Spotify and more than 50 editorial placements (including Dance Party, Crying on the Dancefloor, Electronic Rising….), 10,000+ radio spins worldwide, and sold-out tours across Europe and North America. His sound has earned co-signs from BBC Radio 1, Triple J, KCRW, Sirius XM and a wave of DJs who value melody as much as momentum.
Tracklist:
- Driving Fast (with Beau Neptune)
- Different Time
- Still Fading (with Alecc Crisostomo)
- Direct With It (with Beau Neptune)
- Mutt
- Stay Blessed (with Alecc Crisostomo)
- Hard2Sleep (with Beau Neptune)
- Drinking To Get Drunk
- All My Fault (with Thals)
- Shine A Light (with Zayden)
- Maximum
- Liza M1 (with Liza Flume)
- 20 Anymore
- Holly (with Junior Simba)
- We F-Up (with Liza Flume)
UPC > 3516628500015
Format > New Vinyl
Label > Unity Records
Shop online at Darkside Records.
Follow us on Instagram.
> Due to the current limited nature of music titles, ALL CD & Vinyl purchases are limited to FOUR copies per customer, per item. If you place multiple orders for multiples of the same title, your subsequent orders will be canceled.