Sybris
Chicago
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Into the Trees is in on sale on May 20, 2008 but you can pre-order it now on the Absolutely Kosher website. Sybris will be soaring across the nation shortly after the record release.
Chicago's Sybris is a quartet of powerful grace, the sound of a battalion of Valkyries astride winged horses bound for Valhalla. The sweep of giant white wings in the wind, the creak of the saddle beneath the weight of warrior goddesses in full regalia, the dreamy, gauzy, glittery haze of the ghosts of the warrior dead behind them floating towards eternal glory. I mean, um, it's not metal. Rock has got to reclaim all the cool Viking shit from metal. But Chicago winters can be as extreme as those in Nordic lands and Sybris carries all of that on their latest album, Into the Trees. Propelled forward by singer Angela Mullenhour's sugar coated knife-edge voice, a unique entity in itself, brimming with shattering potential and weighted with its own world-weariness, elegant, bruised but never defeated. In fact, the whole outfit is tough as shit, Chicago in a way nobody's seen for awhile.
Into the Trees is the band's second album, recorded with Grammy-nominated engineer John Congleton (Explosions in the Sky, Mountain Goats) in the backwoods of Minnesota at Pachyderm Studio. The supposedly haunted studio is the same one used to record Nirvana's In Utero and P J Harvey's Rid of Me. The album is also their first with new label Absolutely Kosher Records, following a 2003 self-released EP, A Time for Hollerin and their 2005 self-titled label debut on Flameshovel. Into the Trees explores themes of perception, relationships, and decay with a salt of the earth perspective that flows through the band both in demeanor, sound and appearance.
Sybris has spent the last three years bubbling under, touring with the likes of The Fiery Furnaces, The Walkmen and The Hold Steady as well as dates at Lollapalooza and Virgin Fest. An early posting of one of the album's songs, "Oh Man!", received impressive reviews and prompted Pitchfork's Brian Howe to write the following: "they haven't tinkered with their style-- "Oh Man!" is of a piece with Sybris's "The Best Day in History Ever", from the blocky yet aerodynamic drums to the nervously chiming guitar lead. This is a good thing, since the band's anthemic indie rock was refreshing precisely for its unabashed classicism."
"Sybris borrow all of their tricks from the best alternative rock albums of the late '80s and early '90s. The disc resembles Isn't Anything, Surfer Rosa and Siamese Dream in its general shape and tonality -- so much so, in fact, that you might mistake it for a throwback on first listen. As songwriters, though, Sybris are their own beast, dishing out one expansive two-headed monster after another." - Splendid
"the young quartet's eponymous debut...kicks fresh plasma and a robust dose of rock bombast into the saggy old [shoegazer] genre." - Westword
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May 19, 2008
We're on tour starting May 23
May 23-Lawrence, KS-Jackpot
May 24-Denver-Larimer Lounge
May 26-Seattle-Sunset Tavern
May 27-Portland-Someday Lounge
May 28-Reno-Satellite
May 29-San Francisco-Rickshaw Stop
May 31-Long Beach-Prospector
June 1-San Diego, CA - Belly Up w/ Fiery Furnaces, Grand …
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