New Season: Honey Vinyl LP

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Label: Ghostly International
Release Date: 6th November

Pop the old dogs up, grab yerself a refreshing glass of something, maybe a mug of something to warm your bones and just let Ben Schwab aka Sylvies easy country folk rock do the rest. It's pure honeyed Americana, gently breezing lapsteel, soft rockers and that good time troubador piano soul. 

If Sylvie’s New Season were a movie, Ben Schwab would be the auteur, screenwriting and directing the vision, articulating his story through a cast of actors. In truth, New Season is a record of the freewheeling country-rock variety, Sylvie’s first with Ghostly International, and it finds the Los Angeles-based artist at the helm of a rotating ensemble, arriving at pure, joyous expression and renewed faith in the face of hardship. It’s a rare and refined kind of musical gesture, both intimate and all-embracing, self-produced, penned singularly, delivered collectively. An invitation to find beauty in life's trials and to trust that even the longest winters can give way to a new season. Like Sylvie’s self-titled effort, New Season still rings of the sunny, lighthearted, and smooth 1960s and ’70s pop, rock, and country sonics that have become the project’s signature. While Schwab constructed that 2021 project mainly with friends in his orbit, stemming from his time playing in Drugdealer’s band and other peripheral projects, he has broadened the scope tenfold for his full-length debut, New Season. The shapeshifting collective executes on an alluring mix of nostalgic and modern sensibilities, recalling the free-spiritedness of Laurel Canyon and bohemian-era Nashville with a contemporary sheen.

Tracklisting:
1. Are You Coming?
2. Not Looking Back Anymore
3. Rina (feat. Alex Amen)
4. New Season
5. You and Me
6. Wish I Could Tell You
7. Traveling
8. Guiding Star (feat. Courtney Marie Andrews)
9. California Hills (feat. Sierra Ferrell)
10. Ending