More about Thyla and their self-titled debut album
Gleaning inspiration from everyday human experience – and blurring the lines of the personal and the fictional – Thyla play as voyeurs and interpreters. Their music is a playground for the shared experience, a place for art that doesn’t preach, or claim to have all of the answers. Instead, their work exists as signposts to emotional moments in time, channeling the chaos of modernity into a sanctuary built from balance and nuance, influenced by the disparate worlds of everything from Kate Bush to My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields.
On their debut album the band makes natural a step onward from their earlier EPs, working in a way that removed outside influence. In the same way that their process allowed them to make their own decisions, the resulting album is also about allowing others space to reach their own conclusions. It asks questions, rather than demands answers, and often zeroes in on the world’s polarized state, knowing when confrontation or walking away is the answer. It is also an album of internal monologues made real, punctuated with regular references to the Lewis Carroll tale Alice In Wonderland.
Praise for Thyla
“You need to get back on this band and understand how good they are.” – Jack Saunders, BBC Radio 1, Next Wave / Track of The Week
Further BBC Radio 1 support from Huw Stephens and Phil Taggart
BBC 6 Music support from Lauren Laverne and Steve Lamacq
Further radio support from Radio X, Amazing Radio, KEXP, KCRW.
“Widescreen pop” – Brooklyn Vegan
“Really great” – Dork
Featured in The Independent’s Now Hear This playlist
“A viable threat to inherit the UK’s indie crown” – The Line of Best Fit
Featured in NME’s New Bangers playlist
Featured in NPR’s New Music Friday playlist
“Positively sublime” – Paste
“Brighton’s grungy dream-pop heroes…” – Pitchfork
“Post-grunge grittiness and fantastical, soaring pop” – Stereogum
“A potent concoction of dream pop and grunge” – Upset
