SYML releases self-titled debut album
ALBUM TRACK “WHERE’S MY LOVE”
CERTIFIED GOLD
EUROPEAN SUMMER FESTIVAL DATES AND
HEADLINE TOUR IN AUTUMN
May 3, 2019 (London/Hamburg) – The long-awaited self-titled debut from SYML is out today (May 3rd). A self-taught producer/programmer/engineer, as well as a guitarist, percussionist and classically trained pianist, music was always in Brian Fennell (aka SYML). SYML was born after writing the song “Where’s My Love,” which has gone on to stream more than 200 million times, used in over 20 syncs and is Certified Gold in the U.S., Netherlands, Ireland and Belgium, and is certified Platinum in Canada. His follow up, the anthemic track “Clean Eyes,” spent seven weeks in the Top 100 on the German Airplay Chart and three months in the Top #30 on the US Alternative Radio Chart. He has continued to write emotive, personal music — songs like “Girl,” about his young daughter’s surgery, “The Bird,” about the difficulty of holding onto to something we care about, “Break Free,” about misogyny in our society, and his current radio single “Wildfire,” written when the hills of Washington were raining ash down on his home.
Simplicity is what moves SYML – pronounced “sih-mul,” it means “simple” in Welsh. A child of a closed adoption, Fennell only discovered his Welsh roots as an adult shortly before naming the project. The songwriting process for ‘SYML’ was a therapeutic one, forcing him to confront his feelings around his identity, fatherhood, relationships and all the unexpected challenges we have to face. Recorded in his basement studio, 20 miles outside of Seattle, it was mostly produced by Fennell himself, with additional collaboration from Mark Ralph (Clean Bandit, Rudimental) and Chad Copelin. Mixed by Grammy award winning engineer Joe Visciano (Beck, Adele), SYML by SYML is the sound of Brian Fennell opening up and letting us in, his emotional honesty and way with a killer melody and sharply observed lyric combining to powerful effect.
LISTEN (AND SHARE) THE ALBUM HERE: http://smarturl.it/SYMLLP
SYML is currently in Europe for a few dates and Liberation Festival and will head back to us later this summer for Pinkpop, Rock Werchter, Southside, Hurricane, and Haldern Pop. He will return for a headline tour, which begins September 11 in Vienna, Austria, and includes stops in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourgh, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France and culminates in London, UK at the Scala on October 29th. Over the past year, he has shared the stage with Lewis Capaldi, Bruno Major, and supported Dean Lewis on his sold-out US spring run. A complete list of upcoming European tour dates follow below.
WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING
„All he needs is a piano, soft synthesizer sounds and his voice to create music that sounds as if time would stand still.” – radioeins
"soft and suggestive melodies and an almost ethereal voice.“ – Rolling Stone, Italy
“A heartbreaking timbre and falsetto” – Alias
"Vulnerability at its most beautiful." – DansendeBeren.be
“Compositions that never become watery or too poppy but that resonate in the depth of the human feelings” – Rolling Stone, France
“…takes him to glitchier and more soaring terrain, like some sort of gorgeous pastiche of Hozier and Sigur Rós.” - NPR
"Whether he’s going viral with sparse ballads or dropping weird and wonderful electro, everything he does turns to gold.”- Idolator
“a lush, subtle, and graceful piece of songwriting.” - Clash
WATCH (AND SHARE) “THE BIRD” HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz9ydImMz_c
SYML Track List:
Clean Eyes
Wildfire
Bed
Where’s My Love
Break Free
Animal
The Bird
Girl
Connor
WDWGILY
Everything All At Once
Before You Knew It was Me
European Tour :
5/5 Groningen, Netherlands @Liberation Festival
6/8 Landfraaf, Netherlands @ Pinkpop
6/21 Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany @ Southside Festival
6/22 Scheessel, Germany @ Hurricane Festival
6/23 Leipzig, Germany @ Naumanns
6/25 Zwolle, Netherlands @ Hedon
6/26 Nijmegen, Netherlands @ Doornroosje, Paarse Zaal
6/27 Esch Sur Alzette, Luxembourg @ Rockhal
6/29 Werchter, Belgium @ Rock Werchter
7/1 Milan, Italy @ Magnolia
7/6 Dublin, Ireland @ Button Factory
8/8 Haldern, Germany @ Haldern Pop
9/11 Vienna, Austria @ B72
9/12 Munich, Germany @ Strom
9/14 Zurich, Switzerland @ Papiersaal
9/16 Frankfurt, Germany @ Zoom
9/17 Cologne, Germany @ Luxor
9/18 Berlin, Germany @ Bi Nuu
10/14 Brussels, Belgium @ Ancienne Belgique
10/15 Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso
10/17 Oslo, Norway @ Ingensteds
10/19 Gothenburg, Sweden @ Oceanen
10/20 Stockholm, Sweden @ Debaser Bar Brooklyn
10/21 Copenhagen, Denmark @ Ideal Bar
10/23 Paris, France @ Maroquinerie
10/25 Brighton, United Kingdom @ The Haunt
10/26 Cardiff, United Kingdom @ Clwb Ifor Bach
10/27 Manchester, United Kingdom @ Band on a Wall
10/29 London, United Kingdom @ Scala
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For media inquiries, please contact:
US: Claire Julian | cjulian@nettwerk.com
EU: Patricia Nigiani | patricia@nettwerk.com
UK: Lorraine Long | lorraine@longevitypr.com
CAN: Lex Talionis | lex@nettwerk.com