'A Swollen River, A Well Overflowing' is Tenci's second album, coming after their 2020 debut 'My Heart Is An Open Field', which introduced Jess Shoman's music explorations to the world. Shoman admits that their first album dealt with letting go of painful life experiences, resulting in emptiness. In this recent collection of wiser years and distance from that former grief, Tenci carries an opposite feeling, a celebration of self-rejuvenation. 'A Swollen River, A Well Overflowing' shows Shoman steering their inventive music further and wilder, spilling over with 12 fable-like songs.