[Cover photo credit to Laura Partain]
Singer/songwriter Emma Swift has shared a video for “The Resurrection Game,” the very personal title track from her new album, alongside a video.
The Resurrection Game is Swift’s first full-length collection of all original material and follow-up to 2020’s Blonde On The Tracks, which is a reimagining of eight classic Bob Dylan songs. The new album arrives Friday, September 12, 2025 via her own Tiny Ghost Records.
A wide variety of formats will be available, including digital, CD, premium D2 black vinyl, cassette, limited-edition lavender vinyl, and limited edition blue swirl vinyl. All vinyl editions were pressed at Denver, CO’s Paramount Pressing and feature deluxe packaging with a gatefold sleeve and rice paper inner bag.
Emma Swift shares about the song’s origin as well as the album’s:
“This is a song about love and loss, about how there’s no escaping grief, it comes for us all, about how the more we love, the more we have to lose. I wrote it after attending an experiential therapy retreat in Northern California called the Hoffman Process. I went to Hoffman because I’d been feeling stuck, and my friend Sarah recommended it to me. It’s a bit of a hippy thing to do, but I’m a bit of a hippy at heart.
I’m not sure if this kind of retreat is for everyone, but it did help me unearth some complicated feelings, particularly around the way I was brought up, and the inherited beliefs and patterns I was carrying around unconsciously. Naturally, these feelings started to become songs…
In Calistoga
Where the redwoods grow
I’ve come to
To excavate your bones…
Redwood trees are towering beauties, ancient and resilient. They are the tallest trees on earth, and can live for thousands of years. The Scottish naturalist, John Muir described them as the cathedrals of nature. I like that. One of the reasons they grow so tall is because they’re able to move and bend with the wind. I learned a lot just by being near them. Mostly about my own flickering life, how small it is in comparison.”
