Mike Cyril

Narrating a backroom conversation between avant-garde and pop, with an honest baritone and distinct lyricism, Mike Cyril pits maddening beauty against genre. Ranging from minimal to extravagant, imbued with brooding intensity and flourishing emotions, his music is inherently cinematic.

Born and raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Cyril was blessed with a naturally artistic childhood – days spent drawing, learning photography, and taking an unusually heavy liking to original motion picture soundtracks. However, it was his first time hearing Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ “Red Right Hand” as a teenager that would permanently shift his years of adolescent self-discovery towards seeking out the rebellious and askew.

Having left Philadelphia for New York City to focus on music, Cyril would meet producer Jarrett Wetherell, whose work with Deva Mahal would inspire the two to begin working together. In doing so, they would build a world out of Cyril’s home demos. The first song to be completed in these sessions, lead single “Alone,” is about recasting solitude within triumph As Cyril explains, “This was the first time I was approaching a song with such honesty. I was in a place where I felt like I was disappearing, in a city filled to the brim with people,” adding, “it's almost as if “Alone” came to me to say; you are still of the earth and still powerful.”