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Silver Firs
12+ albums
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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 record
