Another JOHNNYSWIM Christmas Tour

JOHNNYSWIM have always had a plan. The duo, Amanda Sudano Ramirez and Abner Ramirez, write and record an album, and then tour, connecting with fans around the world on the road. All of their records, since their 2008 debut EP, have been driven by that desire to give life their songs live—which is why the past two years stuck at home have been such a challenge for the band. JOHNNYSWIM, the band’s fourth full-length album, created during the heart of the pandemic, forced the pair’s to embrace a new process of making music. “It reminds me of our first project,” Abner explains of the album, which was written and recorded at the pair’s home in Burbank over the past two years. “There was nobody else— nobody to bounce songs off or gauge a response from. This process was us alone, mining for these thoughts and moments of creativity. A lot of that happened as we were in this mourning process as the world was being shut down. We were finding out how we felt about things, whether it was relationships or family or how things were changing, as we wrote. It almost feels like our re-introduction to the world as JOHNNYSWIM.”