After dedicating an album to running away from the psychologist’s chair, singer Teddy Swims has finally tried therapy. “So many times in my life I would put myself in harm’s way almost to try to get fuel for the record, you know, which is such a negative thing,” the American singer-songwriter (real name Jaten Collin Dimsdale) tells me from Amsterdam. “I promised myself that I would start going after I put the first album out, and I still kept pushing it off a bit.”
Dimsdale, 32, certainly speaks the language of the recently well therapised. “I’m in such a safe place in my life that I get so loved and supported,” he says, grin peeking through that signature bushy beard. “I’m just surrounded by love and support. I’m so grateful for where I am and who I am and where the future is too.” It’s a good place to be, to have your head firmly screwed on, with the kind of year the singer is having.
