It is the opening track on their seventh studio album, Koi No Yokan (2012), and was released as a single on March 30, 2013, where it peaked at No.

[3] Belching Beaver released a limited edition IPA beer named after the song in 2019.

The first music video for "Swerve City", directed by Gus Black, was released on May 9, 2013.

It shows a woman (Tamara Feldman[4]) in the desert riding a horse to her home (a ranch bungalow).

While brushing her horse outside the bungalow, Chino Moreno is seen heading towards her home in a Porsche Panamera.