Tellying by S.L.Y.C.

The Oslo quartet releases their third album – their most complete to date. Nine meticulously crafted dreampop songs, sonically inspired as much by krautrock and shoegaze as by electronic dance music.

The songs revolve about everyday activities like watching television, gardening, raising children, looking at the pavement on the way to work – and realising that their rhythm evokes a certain determinism, obscuring the borders between failure and success, between doer and deed. The garden may be cultivating me, my children raising me, and the tv-shows and I engage in a common endeavour of tellying. The music seeks to puncture the membrane of loneliness in the lyrics, with a sound that invites attention, pushing through to a place where communication and connection is possible.

Tracklist

1.	Look Up	4:18

2.	Safety, grace	3:46

3.	Colleagues	3:50

4.	Sodium Layer Yacht Club	7:28

5.	No Warning	1:51

6.	Simmer	3:02

7.	Felicity	4:13

8.	Perennials	6:02

Credits

released November 11, 2022

Sigurd Bergflødt: drums, percussion
Sara Lena Yri Cools: vocals, synthesizers, acoustic guitar, percussion
Daniel Meyer Grønvold: electric guitar, bass guitar (A1 and B3), keyboard, percussion
Kjersti Aase Winjum: bass guitar, violin
Additional musicians:
Isak Anderssen: cello
Kyrre Laastad: percussion
Kristoffer Momrak: flute
Jørgen Sissyfus Skjulstad: FM synthesis
Songs A1, A2, B1, B4 composed by Sara Lena Yri Cools; A3, B2, B3, B5 by Daniel Meyer Grønvold and Sara Lena Yri Cools; A4 by Sara Lena Yri Cools, Daniel Meyer Grønvold and Anthony Barratt. Lyrics by Sara Lena Yri Cools, except A2 by Barry Kavanagh and Sara Lena Yri Cools. Lyrical consulting by Barry Kavanagh.
Recorded and produced by Sara Lena Yri Cools and Daniel Meyer Grønvold at Metronopolis and satellites. Drums recorded by Kyrre Laastad. Additional instruments recorded by respective additional musicians. Mixed by Kyrre Laastad. Mastered by Christian Næss.

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