One of the hardest thing to find in today’s record "industry" is artists who are able to keep improving. We’ve been following Ruth Mirsk’s Syvia since 2011, and their musical output has been showing constant progress. The band’s latest release is synth-pop/shoegazer track "Anxious Animal" (streaming), which is a taste of their upcoming EP scheduled for a February 2016 release. Echoes of the droney late ’80s/early ’90s reverberate through the layers of distorted guitars and synth pads, evocative of British acts ranging from the Psychedelic Furs to Echo and the Bunnymen. Ruth’s vocals are appropriately semi-lost in a fog of reverb, and accentuate the moodiness of a single that’s enjoyably pop notwithstanding its many noisy and tense elements. Which is sonething only good songwriting and production can pull off. Syvia will be performing at Pianos on January 16th.
We added this song to The Deli’s playlist of Best Psych songs by emerging NYC artists – check it out!