Slyrydes lastly launch their debut album, and it has been effectively 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 finally started taking part in music collectively, and it shortly grew to become one thing very actual, with the fervour 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 finally 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 Right this moment FM.
A yr later, they’d launched 5 singles into the world. Buzz and momentum was rising, and plans have been brewing for some main dwell exhibits. Then COVID hit, and like so many artists on the time, the enforced hiatus threatened their very future.
Now, after years of non-public progress and collective survival, Slyrydes have made it to the beginning, with the discharge of their debut album, What Occurs If You Get Completely happy.
“From the start, we mentioned we needed to make necessary music, the sort that mattered to individuals,” 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 Completely happy
“It is a visceral, unflinching, and trustworthy report 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 last word cathartic remedy for a band that overtly admits to battling varied 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 individual loves one other individual shit.” [Fuz]
The album continues with the previous single, I Declare To Be Clever. You possibly can nearly really feel the stress and private anxiousness constructing on this observe, earlier than it might not be contained. The video stays some of the visually highly effective I can keep in mind seeing since beginning this weblog.
Boy In The Debs Swimsuit is a poignant and frantic seek for a lacking faculty graduate. The following 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 embody Ahearn(e) and Hearn(e). There are 2718 individuals with the surname Ahern in Eire, and 1404 individuals in the UK.
Lengthy-term followers of the band will recall former singles, Harmful Animals and Out Endurance. Each sound as recent and thrilling as they did on first launch. It is 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 music 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 must be handled as greater than chilly statistics.
What Occurs If You Get Completely happy is a 12-track album cast in real hearth. Six of its tracks have by no means been heard earlier than. It’s a report that asks huge questions however doesn’t flinch from the solutions.
“We’ve bled for this report actually and figuratively,” Mark Raftery “It’s been a protracted street, however perhaps we would have liked that point aside to determine who we actually are. This album is our story.” Mark Comer
With plans to carry their explosive dwell present again on the street, Slyrydes are able to make the assertion they at all times promised, and we are able to’t wait to see what comes subsequent. This band stay necessary.
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