DYLYN – EP REVIEW

DYLYN – Sauvignon and a Kimono

DYLYN - Sauvignon and a Kimono

Release Date: 23rd February 2018

I’ve been waiting for this for a while now. Not specifically this release by DYLYN, you understand, but an edgy pop star full of attitude and ready to party without any of the major label sheen or cleanliness that makes everything so dull these days. From the opening guitar stabs of ‘American Nightmare’ and the first line of “Jack, Coke, wanna go smoke, all that I know, I’d rather be broke than bored” you know this track and those that follow mean business, whether you like it or not. ‘Secret’ starts a little more delicately with a dreamy guitar line but the attitude is still there and the borrowed glamour of a house party in Beverly Hills that’s only ruined when the owners of said house 
get home and find you naked in their infinity pool.

There’s a fantastically bratty brassiness to ‘Mimosa’ that could give Angie a run for her money in some sort of international pop off. “I’d rather swim in my Mimosa” is the chorus which says it all and way better than the English translation (“I’d rather swim in my Bucks Fizz” is less of statement of defiance and more a comment on how poor Christmas is). On ‘Flicker’ there’s more of a straight-up pop vibe which will work well on radio and selling this for sync opportunities but that’s not really what DYLYN is about. Title track ‘Sauvignon and a Kimono’ pulses and pops like LadyHawke or Christine & The Queens while the vocals luxuriate in the decadence that comes with getting up in the PM and starting the day with whatever is left from finishing off the night before.

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The synth throb and processed beats that opens ‘Wolf’ is straight out of the 80s but DYLYN’s vocal is so powerful and direct that it’s as though it was written as an anthem for a new empowered and tired-of-waiting women. The EP closes out with ‘Sober’ and those 80s vibes are back with the kind of synth vs jangly guitars battle that St Elmo’s Fire had in spades. “You only call me when you’re sober, you’re not afraid to take me home, introduce me to your mother but I’d rather be hungover”, sings our anti-hero with brutal honesty and a sense of effortless cool. The thing is, this isn’t just a brainless party girl, DYLYN has crafted a sophisticated and slick EP here but there’s a spirit of defiance behind it that the world needs right now. Who wants to be weighed down by the general malaise in the world and 24 hour fake news when you can party all night, sleep all day and wake up with a different drink in your hand every day?


19th May – Noch Besser Leben, Leipzig-Plagwitz
20th May – Kantine Berghain, Berlin
21st May – Lux, Hannover
22nd May – Wohngemeinschaft, Munchen
23rd May – Unter Deck, Munich
24th May – Kulturbrucken, Mannheim
25th May – Haldern Pop Bar, Haldern

27th May – 917 XFM Newcomer Stage, St. Georg

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