Darren Sylvester on RRR

Be sure to tune into RRR this arvo to hear Darren Sylvester have a chat with Clem Bastow
and guest programme on Transference at 5:30pm.

Those not living in Melbourne can stream it here.

Darren Sylvester Album Launch

Put it in your diaries:

Darren Sylvester launches his debut album on
Saturday the 10th of October at The Toff In Town,
Second Floor, Curtin House, 252 Swanston Street, Melbourne.

He will be joined by renowned folk-rock group,
Kes Band and super pop girls, The Icypoles.

Taking musical cues drifting from Roxy Music and Berlin-era Bowie to other current single-band performers such as LA’s Ariel Pink and John Maus, Sylvester’s live experience of the new-new-wave is performed with guitars, synths and a duplicate of New Orders 1983 drum kit.

Lyrically he encompasses themes seldom touched in contemporary pop, such as chemotherapy in the high octane strut of That’s a Nice Haircut; the malaise of factory work in Twenty Three and Phil Spector, a ballad about – and using – only Phil Spector’s favourite chords.

His debut album has been described as:

“a mix of wit, homage and melodic brilliance … making this strange art-pop artefact an unqualified success.”
Michael Dwyer (EG, THE AGE)

“What he came up with just happens to be a contender for the slickest pop album of the year.” (INPRESS)

“There’s an early-career T.Rex swagger to Darren Sylvester’s debut album…
a finely pitched and accomplished record.”
4/5 stars. (M Magazine, THE AGE)

“Sylvester’s debut delivers an irrevocable sense of suave and sedate pop melodrama.”
(BEAT)

8/10 (Vice Magazine)

+ INPRESS Single of the week for That’s a Nice Haircut

Tickets are $9 + booking fee presale or $12 on the door

On sale from Moshtix:
http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=30264&ref=moshtix
or phone: 1300 GET TIX (438 849)
or Moshtix outlets including Polyester (City)