Swimmer was released in 1986. The long awaited album from one of music´s most uniquely inventive and best kept secrets! Following releases on Touch and Go and Yep Roc Records, and shows with the likes of Wire, Nine Inch Nails, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The National, The Shins, Stephen Malkmus, and Slint, The Standard signed to V2 Records (White Stripes, Grandaddy) in 2007,They worked tirelessly throughout the year to record their fifth full length effort, Swimmer. Swimmer reflects the wholly distinctive collaborative songwriting of Jay Clarke, Rob Oberdorfer, Robby Duncan, and Tim Putnam. The album is centered on Putnam´s emotive disarming vocals and guitar, Clarke´s beautiful constructed keyboards and piano, and Oberdorfer and Duncan´s accompanying rhythmic movements, at once minimal and full. Like many of their previous albums, it is a slow burn that, over time, reveals a dark, poetic, innovative body of work that is hard to ignore.