Unfortunately Sylvan are calling it a day.

We've had some great times and we'd like to thank all the people that have been kind and helped us out over the years.

We'll hopefully be playing a final gig in Dublin but nothing is confirmed as of yet.

And if anybody is interested in drumming for a new project with Paul and Kieron shout us a holla on this here myspace

Thanks and Goodbye

Paul, Kieron and Collie

 

Greetings folks,
Unfortunately Sylvan will be taking a short semi-break in April as I'll be living in Berlin for a while. But don't fret, there should be a fair few gigs and ALOT of new songs before then and we'll still be working on stuff when i'm over there.
BUT this move is geographically convenient for my side-project Shlow so hopefully we'll be able to make the leap to a proper, active band once we find someone to provide the beats!
If you're in Copenhagen/ Berlin and you're interested in occupying the drum stool send Sylvan or Shlow a message (Shlow are in our top Friends)
Thank you for your time
Paulston Cherkledong

We got some reviews of our recent album "We are lying to you through song" in from English website Moderate Rock, US Website Deaf Sparrow and Road Records. Have a read if you wish.....

DEAF SPARROW

The four sparrows Sylvan is getting for We Are Lying to You Through Song were guaranteed anyway. This quartet rocks some of the finest noise that side of the European continent. And the best part of it is that you don't need to have your whisky earplugs to enjoy it. Sylvan gets as close to playing it pretty as you can get without falling into mesmerizing pop sensibilities. "I'm From You" is delicate but not feeble. It is quiet but at its core quite abrasive and invading. The equal of an ugly chick you like to bed but can't stand the sight of the next morning. It's trapping, because with some Jameson inside, shit, it don't fucking matter. Guitars eventually veering into noise trapping, the Sonic Youth element coming to the surface. Beautiful. For the rest Sylvan keeps it a tad noisier, as if they weren't paying attention to the latter works of all their influences. Seemingly messy but there is a very regimental order coming into play here.  This band's work is quite elemental and stripped from all artifices. We Are Lying to You Through Song is the third full-length of Sylvan and it sounds like it, these gentle lads are looser than a clown's pocket.

 

MODERATE ROCK

SYLVAN- We Are Lying To You Through Song

Ireland is only separated from the rest of the UK by one stretch of water, but try telling that to any band looking to jump the gap. Sometimes the Emerald Isle might as well be a million miles away. Dublin quartet Sylvan sound like they couldn't care less what holds them back though. In fact, in debut full-length 'We Are Lying To You Through Song', they have a disc that's strong, stubborn and fights like a starving dog.

 Punk rock but never predictably so, Sylvan's sound slumps somewhere between Black Flag, Shellac and Nirvana, and the band, who appear to be both pissed and seriously pissed-of, work on all manner of levels. If you want something bristling and dangerous then opener 'Hobo Wars' is a killer, if you want to try and sing along then 'Monkey Is A Rat' sounds like Steve Albini messing with melody for the first time ever and if all you want to do is dance then 'Braindog' will lead you from scratchy punk to a place of pure noise.

So Sylvan do make a brilliant racket as often as possible but whether it's the calm-before-the-storm confrontation of 'I'm From You', the twist and release math-rock wreck of 'I Wanna Be Your Cat', or the eerie acoustics of 'Junglejuice', they also have a command over music's quieter corners too. And, while it may be the economical production values that stops them from exploding, it feels more like the band are acutely aware that the threat of a musical meltdown is often more magnificent, and more menacing, than the fully unleashed final squall of noise.

Intelligent, irate and at times outright crazy, don't let a silly thing like the a few miles of sea stop you from discovering a great band. Quite something.

 

ROAD RECORDS

SYLVAN  WE ARE LYING TO YOU THROUGH SONG    
this new album from irish based sylvan features some damn fine post punk and avant rock sounds, there are moments that really hark back to the heyday of labels like amphetamine reptile along with touch and go, there are some really blistering heavy sounds which really remind me of bands like killdozer, jesus lizard, tad and johnboy, there would also be element of the post hardcore sounds of fugazi with lots of shouty angst ridden moments, its all held together by a very tight and clever rhythm section keeping all the intricate time sequences well in control, try to imagine the likes of shellac in a really really bad mood, september 2007

 

Goodday!!!!

The fantastic Shlow have submitted a new musical ditty entitled "My Eventual Death" to Myspace.

Shlow is a band featuring Adam from Imagine i had hands and myself. We write and record tunes together whenever we get the chance (I live in Dublin. Adam lives in Copenhagen)

You can hear it here:

http://www.myspace.com/shlowmusic

Adios

Paul

We're finally getting somewhere!!slowly

With Collie and Kieron crippling themselves we've only been a band for 5 of the last 15 months so 'tis good to be back. We've got two gigs behind our backs with the deadly "We are Knives" and "Adebisi Shank"among others.

And we also have some recordings done with magicfingers Mick down in Wexford. Two ROUGH mixes of our shambolic shindiggeries are on the page for your listening pleasure/pain.

So hopefully it'll be a salubrious and uproarious summer of playing gigs and releasing things

Until then