The Giant Leaps



Sailship was an indie electronica project by Mark Swickley of Saint Paul, Minnesota. He released his debut EP, The Best Thing About Me Is You, in 2009. This was followed by the full length, The Giant Leaps, in 2010. From here, Swickley would take a break from Sailship before releasing Paper Garden, the second and final album, in 2016. He announced the project's retirement soon after. He stated in a Facebook post: The songs I wanted to write have been written, and the impact this project has had on my life will stay with me forever. I've learned so much about myself as a musician, as a friend, and as a person because of all of you.* Swickley would go onto form The Clear Coast with a few of his friends in 2021, and start a new solo project, Faraway Fires in 2022. Sailship's Facebook page can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/sailshipmusic/ *The full post reads: Dear friends and listeners, It's with a heart full of gratitude that I finally announce the retirement of Sailship. The songs I wanted to write have been written, and the impact this project has had on my life will stay with me forever. I've learned so much about myself as a musician, as a friend, and as a person because of all of you. Thank you to all of the incredible people who have followed my sporadic journey through music since 2009. Even while I was in hiding for so many years after The Giant Leaps came out, I was consistently amazed by the devotion some of you showed my music. I will never be as good a person as some of the people I've met through this project, and the support you've shown me will live on as a benchmark in my life. I hope you will lend me your ears again in the future, because this isn't the end of my musical story, only the end of the chapter known as Sailship. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart. Mark P.S. Everything in the Sailship merch store is 50% off! Tell your friends, and scoop up some tees and CDs for wicked cheap before they're gone forever! ???? https://root.theworkpc.com/music/preview?img=http://sailship.bigcartel.com Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.