In March 2017, Idam started recording several songs that he had previously written partially. With a home-style recording, Idam began to invite Miska to fill in the bass on some of the songs he had made. A year later, Swellow started taking their material to the recording studio and started bringing in Opay as a drummer, Afnan in guitar, and Bayu in vocals. Swellow is heavily influenced by numerous local and foreign indie rock musicians in the 90s. Read more on Last.fm