Lowswimmer: The World Is Your Oyster

In 2025, most artists have embraced the concept of going past previously set limitations within musical genres and simply gone with whatever feels right for them in their creative process. Whether going solo or collaborating; working quickly or spending months gradually adding to and enhancing different tracks, there is no right or wrong way in how one works their creativity. As the old saying goes, the world is your oyster. A phrase that resonates heavily with LOWSWIMMER, aka Ed Tullett, multi-instrumentalist meets producer meets songwriter meets performer.

Tullett’s musical catalogue expands well over a decade from solo releases under both his name and the moniker, to collaborations with NOVO AMOR, LISSOM, and HAILAKER to name a few, yet no project sounds the same. Ahead of the release of LOWSWIMMER’s second record, Godspeed, Fantasy, we sat down with Tullett to talk about his creative process and how his newest release pushed certain barriers in both a personal and sonic sense.

The record itself was written in almost complete isolation and is described by Ed as being “a product of his own intention” that he expanded on when we asked about how he went about writing and record. “It was written during a period of great change for me; relationships breaking down and various things, a lot of personal growth, which is a lot of what the record is about. For me, the title is about becoming the person you want to be, but also not putting too much pressure on yourself to do that, and just trying to get out of your own way a bit, which I find difficult, but just letting yourself take the steps you need to kind of become who you want to be.”

“I’ve done a lot of collaborate projects in co-writing, production and stuff with other people, and this record was very much just myself. I think partly because it just came together so quickly and whilst it’s been a long time coming in terms of coming out, the record itself has been done for a while and,” Tullet pauses a moment before concluding, “a case of just really kind of riding a wave of inspiration and almost not having the time to involve other people on it. And it just felt like it made sense to do it by myself.”

Godspeed, Fantasy was written at time of personal change and when Ed was pushing past certain parts of his comfort zone where he was trying out new things. A daunting thing for anyone, yet something that has very clearly left a positive impact of Tullett where he’s talked about feeling limitless and has very much taken to heart that saying of the world being your oyster. He explains further. “I think because it was such a period of change for me, it kind of felt a bit like I was free to kind of do what I wanted and that extended, you know, both within my own personal life, but also musically and sonically, and also being bolstered by the fact that I finally put out a new solo record and had this new moniker and stuff, it just felt really open and I could do what I wanted, which you know, I’m very lucky to get to be able to do but I think it was just really fun to experiment with stuff and kind of genre blend a bit more. I know it just came together like starting out with more kind of synth drones and stuff and playing off of that.”

“It’s weird because it’s been such a long time since I made the record, so it’s not super fresh in my mind but I think it’s a style that I’ve bought on going forward. I think I learned a lot making that record in terms of not being afraid to try stuff and not working too within the limitations of one genre.”

Despite the record being an almost completely solo in terms of creation, Ed did branch out to include other musicians in the album’s production, yet not in the traditional sense of bring everyone together in a studio, rather sending out small snippets to people, including string arranger David Grubb, who then added to these sections in their own way. Tullett describes how this process came about. “So, on this record, it was mainly instrumental players like strings and brass and stuff which makes a real huge difference. I think these days as there are some amazing plugins and sample libraries and stuff that you can use, but I think the big thing that I love about working with real instrumentalists is just the kind of inspiration and little other ideas that can appear.”

“I think if you actually prefer working with those people, remotely as well, because it just allows them to kind of take their own spin on things. And I think if you record with instrumentalists in the room, you often have to know what you want, and sometimes it’s I like not knowing what I want and just allowing other musicians to kind of take spin on it. So that was really fun. But yeah, for this record, it was mainly just instrumental players which adds so much.”

So with that being said and done, with Godspeed, Fantasy now completed and ready for the world to hear, what is Tullett the most proud of? “I think it’s my most ambitious and unique record to date, and I think also, just coming from a period of doing so much collaboration, making a record with, you know, almost no-one was kind of really kind of affirming. I love all the stuff I put up out up to that point, but I think it’s my best work so far and I’m just excited about how it came out, how I produced it and how different it is, especially some of my older stuff. And also then just being a bit of a springboard and platform for the new stuff and allowing me to experiment slightly more.”

Godspeed, Fantasy is out now via self-release. View this interview, alongside dozens of other killer bands, in glorious print magazine fashion in DS123 here:

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