C.Y.M.

C.Y.M.

Phantasy Sound

PH93D

C.Y.M.

C.Y.M.

Phantasy Sound

PH93D

ARTIST
C.Y.M.
TITLE
C.Y.M.
LABEL
Phantasy Sound
CAT NO.
PH93D
FORMAT
Digital
RELEASE DATE
    01/11/2019
TERRITORY
Worldwide
BARCODE
5060731221506
GENRE
FEATURING
C.Y.M.

SALES NOTES

Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio teams up with Fort Romeau aka Mike Greene, collaborating as C.Y.M. for their debut on Phantasy this November.
C.Y.M. is the collaboration between British producer and DJ Mike Greene (otherwise known as Fort Romeau) and LA-based American musician Chris Baio, who releases music as Baio in addition to playing bass in the acclaimed band Vampire Weekend. Their debut, self-titled EP arrives on Phantasy as an elegant pean to the infinite possibilities of kosmische music, driven by a motorik strain of psychedelia. The foundations of a wider project, C.Y.M. speaks not for analogue nostalgia, but a subtle and modern update on imagined futures that are still open to interpretation.
‘Capra’ immediately establishes the duo’s masterful if unsurprising grip on rhythm, a man-machine stomp that persists as the track takes myriad turns, from post-punk guitar licks and processed vocals, through bubbling modular synthesis and culminating in a soaring, cathartic melody.
On ‘Far Gone’ C.Y.M. turn their studio inward for a more brooding and intimate interpretation of their sound, a balearic amalgam of intriguing vocals, feedback soaked riffs and no-wave inspired movement.
The bliss beneath the waves of noise that crash across C.Y.M’s music emerges fully on the driving conclusion, ‘Super-Cannes’. A hypnotic tempo and blistering drums intertwine with whirling organs, and shimmering keys, providing a wistful and warm finale.

DJ PROMO / PRESS

Media Support - StampTheWax.com, DJ Mag (ES),
Nonacíenmanchester, 44100Hz Social Club
Local Suicide, Pitchfork, Clash, Clubbing Spain,
Mixmag Turkey, NME interview

Published: 15th October 2019