Swim School is a four piece indie rock band that plays '90s inspired indie rock with a soaring big indie pop sound that ends up giving their songs an uplifting anthemic tone. They originally started out as more or less a jangle pop band, putting out songs that suggested carefree fun, as was the case with their first EP, volume 1, released in 2020 right before the lockdown. It was around that time that drummer Billy McMahon joined the band and began to provide them a strong bottom to build on. The band came out of the pandemic period with making sense of it all EP (2021) where they began to display an edgier sound with crunchier guitars, as themes coming from singer guitarist Alice Johnson began to grow darker.