BYSTS

With the release of their debut singles, Killer on the Road, Taste and Speed in November 2015, BYSTS are quickly becoming one of the most talked-about bands in psych and shoegaze. Immediately being featured internationally in Sounds Better With Reverb, The Sound of Confusion, SYFFAL, Psychgazer and many others, have left new fans wanting more. SYFFAL said in a review for their single, Speed. “Speed" is fucking tits… Oozing evil like a motherfucker, that's BYSTS.” The positive reviews kept coming with a nod from Sounds Better With Reverb on their review of the shoegaze single Taste, “ …an explosive noise rocker with sonic bombs and loads of attitude!”. Including great and welcome comparisons by The Sound of Confusion “BYSTS… ends up sounding not unlike something from 'XTRMNTR'-era Primal Scream.” They’re known for their stunning and mesmerizing stage performances that leave many onlookers breathless. Get ready CMW fans because you’re in for a treat. Look out for BYSTS debut album Summer 2016.

BYSTS are an electronic rock duo based in SLC, UT blending shoegaze & trip/hip hop. Formed in October 2015, by Bryan Holbrook (guitar, vocals) and Stefanie Marlow (bass, vocals) creating a sound reminiscent of Massive Attack, Slowdive, Love & Rockets, Telescopes & Primal Scream. With a dark wave psychedelic sound they have been able to create beautifully lush pop arrangements as well as moody hypnotic swells.

BYSTS (Bryan & Stefanie) have played with:
Autolux, Black Angels, Neon Trees, Black Lips, Mini Mansions, Ben Kweller, Dead Meadow, Strange Boys, White Rabbits, Dengue Fever, Swervedriver, The Growlers , White Hills, Chrystal Stilts - cmw.net

BYSTS deliver ‘Taste’, an explosive noise rocker with sonic bombs and loads of attitude! The Utah duo (Bryan Holbrook and Stefanie Marlow) only formed a few months back but have already posted a handful of singles on Bandcamp that fringe several genres; psych, darkwave, shoegaze and beyond. Keep an ear out for BYSTS debut EP, slated for Spring 2016.


BYSTS – ‘Taste‘ [Premiere]

(BYSTS - "Taste" Video Link https://youtu.be/NOICTBBgOE0)

Visit BYSTS @ Bandcamp @ Facebook. - Sounds Better With Reverb

BYSTS Speed (Official Video) Release

Joel Frieders | December 10, 2015

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuude, put this on loud in a dark room and don't fucking blink. This shit from BYSTS is like a highlight film of every desktop computer and smart phone wallpaper ever made, and it's fucking chilling. The scenes with the different colored smoke in slow motion looks like the shit is almost being poured out of whatever the fuck is creating said colored smoke.

I love when a rhythm is perfectly suited for the music played on top of it, and "Speed" is fucking tits. BYSTS have somehow created an alternate soundtrack for that one scene in Ghostbusters after that asshole Peck opens up the captured ghosts storage device and all the shits stream up out the roof of HQ and all over the Manhattan skyline. Oozing evil like a motherfucker, that's BYSTS. - SYFFAL.com

Q. When did Bysts start? tell us about the history...

Stefanie and I have been collaborating off and on with this project for about 6 months just playing covers and working on our sound. But we've only actually been writing and recording as BYSTS for about 2 or 3 months. We've been making music together for about 7 years in various bands. Our other projects didn't work out but we gained a ton of experience playing with bands that we admire like Autolux, Black Angels.... Because of our previous experience when we were ready to start BYSTS and we had the sound that we really wanted we were able to move pretty quickly.

Q: Who are your influences?

Musically we listen to a lot of Primal Scream. Blonde redhead, The Raveonettes first album never seems to get boring. We're really big fans of Massive Attack and Tricky. Lords of the New Church, Love and Rockets. You can't go wrong with Hawkwind and Spiritualized is always great. But we also listen to a lot of Hip Hop which seems to be a big influencer these days as well. Honestly we listen to so much stuff it's hard to pinpoint one thing. We don't really draw from one specific influence we're just open to good music whatever the genre. Sorry, that was a really long answer to a straightforward question.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time...

That's a hard question but here are the top 5 for us, right now based on what we're listening to the most, in no particular order. Just a side note Spacemen 3, BJM, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, the Jesus and Mary Chain, the Chameleons, the Kinks, Telescopes and a million other bands belong on this list but we're just not listening to a ton of that right now.

1. Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
2. Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
3. EL-P - Cancer For Cure
4. Love and Rockets - Express
5. Suicide - (self titled)

Another side note (Bryan and I ended up getting into a 30 minute debate about all the great bands and genres and what should actually go on this list. It's not an easy question.)

Q. How do you feel playing live?

(Bryan) - We love it! Every show is exciting and nerve racking up until we get on stage and then it relaxes and just clicks. (Stefanie) - Before every show I feel like my heart is going to explode and then when I get on stage it just clicks and I get lost in the music.

Q. How do you describe BYSTS sounds?

In regards to genre we see ourselves spanning across dark wave, shoe gaze, trip hop, and psychedelia but I guess we just imagine it sounds like the emotion your having when you have it. The songs are meant to tell stories and embody specific emotions so hopefully that's what they do.



Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?

It's kind of a two fold process where we write and record at the same time. So when a song is finished being written it also is finished being recorded and at that point just needs to be mixed and mastered. Since we record everything ourselves in our studio we're able to really tweak the sounds as we go. We've worked more traditionally in the past where you write a finished song and then go record it but I prefer the way that we do it now.

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?

Some of these are newish bands or not new at all and some aren't actually bands but are producers and rappers. We really love METZ and listen to them pretty non stop. Tobacco is incredible. Mac Demarco is a great song writer and hilarious. Acid Mothers Temple is so good live. Ohbliv is pretty chill and I can't recommend enough. White Fence is fantastic live. I just got int Tajima Hal which is really, really good. Scapeghost Purp might not be for everyone but his 4AD stuff is fantastic.

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?

We currently cover Lords of the New Church, Hawkwind and Love and Rockets and we're actually in the middle of recording these covers so they'll be out before the year ends.

Q: What are your plans for the future?

We're writing songs and releasing videos for our singles in promotion for our album release next year and we plan to follow that up by playing some festivals and tours. Thats on our mind at the moment and things have been going really well thanks to our friends and fans support which we're really thankful for so who knows what may happen in the meantime.

Q: Any parting words?

Thank you so much for doing the interview with us. Everyone has been so great and supportive we're just super excited that people are enjoying our music and videos.


If anyone wants to contact us, listen to our music or watch our videos they can see them here.

https://www.facebook.com/bysts.band/
https://twitter.com/BYSTSband
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvXGGxMr0sDyl8U8NuUXAcw - The Blog That Celebrates Itself

WHAT I’VE BEEN DIGGING THIS DECEMBER: SOUNDFLY ALUMNI EDITION!

BY JEREMY YOUNG DECEMBER 14, 2015

Earlier this year, we launched one of our most ambitious flagship courses, ... Since then, we’ve been so incredibly inspired by all the artists and bands ...that we decided that it was time to give a warm, holiday shout out to our top 11 ... bands!

Keep these folks on your radar as they will surely be the next amazing act to come through your town on tour!

BYSTS — “Taste”

BYSTS are a Salt Lake City-based electronic rock duo and one of my favorite new discoveries of the year! High energy drums and emotive melodies come together here to produce some very memorable hooks. I’m an immediate fan!

( BYSTS - Taste Youtube video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOICTBBgOE0 ) - Soundfly.com

Get Me Free #127: BYSTS - Killer On The Road
Article by KevW
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12.25.15

By this point in the day you're probably bored to the back teeth of Christmas TV or drunk on booze, so let's take a break to darken the mood for the seventh of our twelve downloads of Christmas. This one comes from Salt Lake City's BYSTS (which is pronounced "beasts", or "beests" as they spell it), a duo who manufacture electro-rock that's designed to blend the darker side of shoegaze with the darker side of trip-hop. So it's a a bit like A Place To Bury Strangers interrupting a Tricky recording session, and actually ends up sounding not unlike something from 'XTRMNTR'-era Primal Scream.

That's a lot of good reference points, and they manage to live up to them with this pummeling industrial monster. You could call it coldwave, you could call it darkwave, but if anyone's invented a genre called post-apocalypticwave then this must be what it sounds like. The noise they make is huge and feels like brute force combined with a certain dexterity that's needed to give the attention to detail that prevents 'Killer On The Road' being just a hollow statement. There's depth and there are ideas, and there's a lot of groaning instruments and effects that will have your speakers quaking in terror. - KevW

Daily Discovery: BYSTS, “Taste”
Written By American Songwriter // February 29, 2016

ARTIST: BYSTS

HOMETOWN: Salt Lake City, Utah / Recife, Brazil

CURRENT LOCATION: Salt Lake City, Utah

AMBITIONS: Hopefully making great music that resonates with people.

TURN-OFFS: Popsicle sticks.

TURN-ONS: Popsicles.

DREAM GIG: Playing with Primal Scream & Spiritualized.

FAVORITE LYRIC: “Shoot speed / kill light.”

SONG I WISH I WROTE: “Heroes” by David Bowie. I tear up every time I hear that song.

5 PEOPLE I’D MOST LIKE TO HAVE DINNER WITH: Brian Eno, Ray Davies, Bobby Gillespie, David Bowie, Jason Pierce.

MY FAVORITE CONCERT EXPERIENCE: Seeing The Jesus and Mary Chain play PsychoCandy at Levitation last year. That was pretty moving.

I WROTE THIS SONG BECAUSE… I feel like the song mostly wrote itself. I just tried to stay open enough to let it happen. - American Songwriter