SLY WITHERS UNLEASH POWERFUL NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO 'CLARKSON’ AND ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM – 'GARDENS'
Photo credit: Shannon Stewart
Perth indie rock outfit Sly Withers take the next big leap of their career today with the release of another sing-like-hell-to-the-heavens single, Clarkson, as well as announcing details of their new album, Gardens. The new record is scheduled for release June 11 via Dew Process records and Universal Music Australia.
With thunderous drums, grinding guitar chords, and a wall of vocals that blasts like your head’s been surrounded by a stack of stadium speakers Clarkson is a song that delivers spine tingle after spine tingle and is anthemic in the truest sense of the phrase. It's a song you can instantly picture being sung back at the band a thousand-fold by an adoring crowd facing a festival stage.
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR ‘CLARKSON’ HERE
It’s yet again indicative of what the band has been able to achieve throughout the recording process of Gardens with co-vocalists and guitarists Jono Mata and Sam Blitvich, as well as bassist Shea Moriarty and drummer Joel Neubecker, working alongside producer Matt Templeman (Make Them Suffer) to set their goals on not just being a great sounding Perth act, but an Australian act that can compete on the international stage.
Clarkson arrives with a brand-new video directed by regular collaborator Tim Elphick, who this time stripped the production down to its bare elements, capturing the band performing the single against a black backdrop, illuminated by Edison bulbs and contrasted against bunches of flowers that provide explosions of colour and create depth. It highlights not just the might of the song, but the power unleashed by the band when they take the stage.
In all the 12 songs on Gardens everything that makes up Sly Wither’s DNA seems enhanced – louder and clearer than before, harmonies more locked in, and a huge leap in songwriting, landing somewhere between the raw indie emo of The Hotelier and American Football, and the celebration rock of Japandroids or even early Foo Fighters.
All the way through Gardens you can feel the love of a musical brotherhood running deep between all four members of the band, and as you listen to the album you can’t help but get caught up in that love. It’s that connection that their fans so strongly identify with, as many of them will honestly tell you. Sly Withers isn’t just a band you listen to – it’s a band you genuinely feel a part of. They look forward to welcoming you into their fold with the release of Gardens.
CATCH SLY WITHERS ON TOUR THROUGHOUT MAY:
Tickets available from slywithers.com
Thu 06 May JIVE • Adelaide, SA, Australia SOLD OUT
Fri 07 May ROSEMOUNT HOTEL • Perth, WA, Australia SOLD OUT
Sat 08 May THE RIVER • Margaret River, WA, Australia
Thu 13 May NEWCASTLE HOTEL • Newcastle, NSW, Australia SOLD OUT
Fri 14 May CROWBAR SYDNEY • Sydney, NSW, Australia SOLD OUT
Sat 15 May UC HUB • Canberra, ACT, Australia (tickets selling fast!)
Thu 20 May VINNIE’S DIVE BAR • Gold Coast, QLD, Australia SOLD OUT
Fri 21 May THE BRIGHTSIDE • Brisbane, QLD, Australia SOLD OUT
Sat 22 May SOLBAR • Maroochydore, QLD, Australia SOLD OUT
Thu 27 May ALTAR BAR • Hobart, TAS, Australia SOLD OUT
Fri 28 May BARWON CLUB • Geelong, VIC, Australia (last round of tickets released!)
Sat 29 May HOWLER • Melbourne, VIC, Australia SOLD OUT
SLY WITHERS - GARDENS
OUT JUNE 11 VIA DEW PROCESS / UNIVERSAL MUSIC AUSTRALIA
1. Cracks
2. Breakfast
3. My Bullshit
4. Taking Steps
5. Bougainvillea
6. Sleep on the Weekends
7. Clarkson
8. Glad
9. Constant Wreck
10. Turns Out
11. Keys
12. Positives
