Slyrydes lastly launch their debut album, and it has been properly well worth the wait.
Introducing Slyrydes
Slyrydes are a critically acclaimed post-punk band from Galway Metropolis, Co. Galway, Eire. They met in a late-night bar the place singer Rafto labored.
In 2013, they ultimately started enjoying music collectively, and it rapidly grew to become one thing very actual, with the eagerness from these late-night music debates naturally translating right into a cohesive sound.
Nevertheless, the trail to their debut album has been something however clean. In a single interview, Fuz from the band describes a journey of chaos and particular person self-disruption with rehab, arrests and preventing threatening to knock them off-course. Fortunately, they ultimately managed to knuckle down.
In 2019, Slyrydes launched their debut single, which was instantly championed by Paul McCloone (The Undertones) on his nationwide radio present on In the present day FM.
A 12 months later, that they had launched 5 singles into the world. Buzz and momentum was rising, and plans had been brewing for some main reside reveals. Then COVID hit, and like so many artists on the time, the enforced hiatus threatened their very future.
Now, after years of private progress and collective survival, Slyrydes have made it to the beginning, with the discharge of their debut album, What Occurs If You Get Blissful.
“From the start, we stated we needed to make essential music, the sort that mattered to folks,” says Eoin Reilly. “We actually lived it. Now we’re in a more healthy place to place this music out and provides it the platform it deserves”
Slyrydes – What Occurs If You Get Blissful
“This can be a visceral, unflinching, and trustworthy file that grabs you from the outset and refuses to let go.”
It feels becoming that the album opener is ‘Psychological Well being’, the discharge of this album may simply be the final word cathartic remedy for a band that brazenly admits to battling numerous psychological well being points and self-destructive tendencies.
We’re very trustworthy with our lyrics and music. We’d be taking the piss if we ignored how we felt and began singing about browsing or that paint by numbers particular person loves one other particular person shit.” [Fuz]
The album continues with the previous single, I Declare To Be Clever. You possibly can virtually really feel the strain and private anxiousness constructing on this observe, earlier than it might now not be contained. The video stays probably the most visually highly effective I can keep in mind seeing since beginning this weblog.
Boy In The Debs Go well with is a poignant and frantic seek for a lacking faculty graduate. The subsequent three tracks, Procrastination Is A Worry Of Failure (PIAFOF), Ahern, and Stutter, are all beforehand unreleased tracks.
PIAFOF is one other deeply private observe that hints on the mindset of a band that has ceaselessly tetered on the brink. Ahern is a jittery, intense affair that tackles the essence of being Irish.
Ahern, which means “descendant of Eachthighearna” is an Irish surname. Variants of the surname embrace Ahearn(e) and Hearn(e). There are 2718 folks with the surname Ahern in Eire, and 1404 folks in the UK.
Lengthy-term followers of the band will recall former singles, Harmful Animals and Out Persistence. Each sound as contemporary and thrilling as they did on first launch. This can be a band unafraid to discover the darker edges of contemporary life.
The lead single from the album is observe 11 ‘Well-known To 5 Million’, a tune about what comes after fleeting fame. Of the brand new tracks, that is an apparent standout second.
“I hope you retain your head and nonetheless keep in mind me. You’re well-known to 5 million.”
The album ends with ‘Simply For Present’, a robust and direct reminder that suicide impacts lives, and the deaths from suicide in Eire ought to be handled as greater than chilly statistics.
What Occurs If You Get Blissful is a 12-track album cast in real hearth. Six of its tracks have by no means been heard earlier than. It’s a file that asks massive questions however doesn’t flinch from the solutions.
“We’ve bled for this file actually and figuratively,” Mark Raftery “It’s been a protracted highway, however possibly we wanted that point aside to determine who we actually are. This album is our story.” Mark Comer
With plans to carry their explosive reside present again on the highway, Slyrydes are able to make the assertion they all the time promised, and we are able to’t wait to see what comes subsequent. This band stay essential.
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