Silver Firs is a Bern, Switzerland based dream pop/psychedelic outfit with an affinity to world percussion and a naive nature romanticism. The band formed in 2011 around members of a now split up post-punk band. For more than a year, they have been working on their debut album in an improvised basement studio and in various living rooms across the city. The group refused to record in a proper studio – not least because the studio time needed for
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Silver Firs is a Bern, Switzerland based dream pop/psychedelic outfit with an affinity to world percussion and a naive nature romanticism. The band formed in 2011 around members of a now split up post-punk band. For more than a year, they have been working on their debut album in an improvised basement studio and in various living rooms across the city. The group refused to record in a proper studio – not least because the studio time needed for their experimental approach to songwriting and sound sculpting would have been to expensive anyway. Silver Firs’ self-titled debut LP was released this spring to widespread national acclaim. The group also received attention from numerous music blogs in the US. Comparisons to some of the North American «animal name» bands were drawn but being from an unagitated small city near the Alps and not from one of the more obvious music capitals, Silver Firs’ sound seems not so easy to categorize. ***12/16/2013 update: Silver Firs are back with their simply titled EP#1. Forward-looking and with a faster pace, the three new songs sound like a marriage of dreamy folk, psychedelica and tropical rhythms. Coming from an unexciting small city near the Alps and not from one of the more obvious music capitals, Silver Firs’ sound is not so easy to categorize. They are combining elements of folk, psychedelic and dream pop and have an obvious affinity to world percussion. The band formed in 2011 and since then followed a strict DIY credo when recording and producing their songs. This stubbornness paid off. While still relatively unknown in Switzerland, their first two singles Away We Go and Golden Age were discussed on numerous music blogs abroad. Silver Firs were among the first Swiss bands to be featured on well-established music blogs like Indie Shuffle, Pigeons & Planes or I Guess I’m Floating. The first song off the new EP gained even more attention in the US. A few days after Motherland was posted on Soundcloud, it reached #4 on Hype Machine’s charts of the «Most Popular Tracks on Blogs Now». Features on Bandcamp, Twitmusic and more online magazines followed. As the title of the new EP suggests, there’s more to come from this band. Press national: Fingerzeig Magazin (07.13) St. Galler Tagblatt (09.05.12) NLZ (07.05.12) Loop Musikzeitung (Jun 12) SF DRS (01.06.12) Radio 3Fach, Album der Woche (07.05.12) Fingerzeig Magazin (10.05.12) Radio Virus (Mai 12) Kanal K, Album der Woche (04.06.12) Kanal K, Top 20 Alben 2012 (Januar 13)
