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SYFFAL sweats a very simple philosophy, and that is to write about the music we love in a manner that is both passionate and semi-informative. Our goal, in addition to growing a luxurious soul patch downstairs, is to bring you the best indie music, be it rock, rap, or the stuff that Del calls music.

Started by a collection of former indie artists and a few of our odd ball friends, we decided that we would only focus on music we cared about, whether it was album reviews of new indie music or interviews with obscure bands from the farthest reaches of the globe. For us it goes beyond staying in the fray and focusing only on the top indie artists because we know the top indie music is already covered top to bottom by our colleagues. We decided to only focus on what we consider the best indie music, whether they are the top, bottom, power bottom or power top.

SYFFAL believes that the music industry, with its limited resources, take the short view on their artists and hope for the best. Thus many a great album is lost in the shuffle of the three month promotion window, especially dealing with new indie music, and that's ass backwards to us. Music is a living and constantly evolving organism and to put a time line on that growth just seems foolish. So we cover everything, new and old, the only caveat being that we love it.

Though our tone is a bit absurd, and we like to think fun, we are very serious about the bands we cover. We know every site is going to ask a different variation on the same questions, and review the same music, so why repeat the same conversation everyone else is having, and why not try to see just how far we can push it? We try to give the artist wall to wall coverage running videos, album reviews, interviews and even offer the artist a regular platform to share themselves and the music they love.

Edison & Lazerbeak - Kill Switch 12" - Album Review

By:Joel Frieders
Our review of the Fieldwerk 12" release of Kill Switch from famed hip hop produc

Edison & Lazerbeak - Kill Switch 12" - Album Review

I fucking hate how I'm all "Oh I'll just put this record on while I pay bills right quick" and next thing I fucking know I'm paying off entire student loans with money I don't have just to fucking say "TAKE THAT SHAT SALLIE MAE YOU FACK!". Life is risky, see. Inserting music ...

Album Rating:
9
Review By:

Chicharones (Josh Martinez and Sleep) – Por Que? (Pork Eh?) - Album Review

By:Will Kowall
Chicharones, Por Que? (Pork Eh?), Album Review, Josh Martinez, Sleep

Chicharones (Josh Martinez and Sleep) – Por Que? (Pork Eh?) - Album Review

This Por Que? (Pork Eh?) mix-tape by The Chicharones is a big fucking classic apple pie, the kind you find behind glass cases at diner's across America: conversely, the second you take a bite, you taste bits of sugar-burnt Canadian bacon marinating in the filling. The production is jacked, so the backbone of this record consists of tri ...

Album Rating:
8
Review By:
Will Kowall

Lambchop - Mr. M - Album Review

By:Tim Baker
Lambchop, Mr. M, Album Review, Merge Records, Alt Country

Lambchop - Mr. M - Album Review

It's a regular ass overcast day and I am on my way to work, looking out the window of the F train where it comes above ground. Staring out of the drizzle covered windows, looking out on the 3 and 4 story apartment buildings as we approach the Carroll Street stop, I am somehow struck by the moment. Something about it seems so fucking poignant and important. Like ...

Album Rating:
9
Review By:
Tim Baker

Masterface - Freedom Tower - Album Review

By:Tom Dozois
Masterface, Freedom Tower, Album Review, Cedar Apfell, Bleek Records

Masterface - Freedom Tower - Album Review

It was 3:00 in the afternoon when I first turned on Freedom Tower. I must have slipped out of consciousness because I awoke 30 minutes later in a fog filled basement dry humping the shit out a Casio synthesizer in my Robocop costume from the Halloween of ’09. This left me asking the questions:

When did I get a fog machine?

Where did this keyboar ...

Album Rating:
9
Review By:
Tom Dozois

Meat Number 5 - Low Flying Planes - Album Review

By:Joel Frieders
Meat Number 5, Low Flying Planes, Album Review, Ricky Ropesack, Big Once

Meat Number 5 - Low Flying Planes - Album Review

Meat Number 5 is weird.

Not weird in a "oh this shit sounds weird" or "man these guys must be vegan" or "I hear a bit of lactose intolerance in their snare" or anything like that.

No, Meat Number 5 is a weird pairing of two muthafuckers. You have ...

Album Rating:
7
Review By:
Joel Frieders

WIth Lions - Touch The Sound - Album Review

By:Tim Baker
WIth Lions, Touch The Sound, Album Review, Indie Rock, Experimental

WIth Lions - Touch The Sound - Album Review

The first few notes of Touch the Sound by With Lions bang it out crystal and clear that this is going to be an intense five song Fuck fest of an EP. It resonates deep and rattles around in your under carriage before screaming a few parting obscenities toward the older folks who just want things to be nice.

With Lions are dope l ...

Album Rating:
8
Review By:
Tim Baker

Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth - Album Review

By:Del LeFevre
Van Halen, A Different Kind of Truth, Album Review, David Lee Roth, Reunion

Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth - Album Review

Who wants to talk about a band that is almost 30 years removed (Yes their last Van Halen album "1984" came out in 1984) from its real heyday. Sure the Hagar led version was around pumping out hits, but they weren't true Van Halen hits. The band had left Diamond Dave and all of the fun behind and gone into Cabo Wabo land w/ Mr. "I Can't Drive 55& ...

Album Rating:
7
Review By:
Del LeFevre

Saltillo - Monocyte - Album Review

By:Joel Frieders
Our review of the amazingly gorgeous instrumental album Monocyte from Saltillo.

Saltillo - Monocyte - Album Review

If you knew who Saltillo was a few years ago, you know about his album Ganglion. You knew that that fucking album contained the most spectacularly morbid and fucking delicious violin and cello tone ever captured on tape. Not only was the violin and the cello gorgeous, but the track

Album Rating:
10
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Dirty Ghosts - Metal Moon - Album Review

By:Joel Frieders
album review, dirty ghosts, metal moon, indie rock, battle slang, shout it in, s

Dirty Ghosts - Metal Moon - Album Review

Everything about this fucking album is tits. It sounds exactly how the band makes me feel. As cliche as that might sound, Dirty Ghosts is this indescribably raw, erotic, pale skinned, tattooed, sweaty, leather drenched brand of modern rock that makes me want to rip the sleeves off my tshirts and make the duck face in every fuc ...

Album Rating:
10
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Howlin' Rain - Russian Wilds - Album Review

By:Tim Baker
Howlin' Rain, Russian Wilds, Album Review, American Recordings

Howlin' Rain - Russian Wilds - Album Review

I don't know how the Fuck they did it but the adorably hairy pricks of Howlin’ Rain somehow tapped into my psyche and mined the data in NASA1 labs to make the perfect album. It is as if they knew exactly which buttons to push, which ear lobe to nuzzle and which ball to roll between their nimble fingers. It is a sensual delight that somehow lea ...

Album Rating:
10
Review By:
Tim Baker

Feed Me - Escape From Electric Mountain - Album Review

By:Seannie Cameras
Album Review : Feed Me : Escape From Electric Mountain : Electronic

Feed Me - Escape From Electric Mountain - Album Review

As the music industry progresses towards minimizing efforts and maximizing profits, it makes the benchmark of this industry: an album, a more and more dubious endeavor for artists to consider as an option. In its place are singles, mixtapes, remixes, edits, bootlegs, an amalgamation of compilations, etc.. But one thing that is becoming more and more a viable and lucrative option for musicians ...

Album Rating:
8
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Heartless Bastards - Arrow - Album Review

By:Tom Dozois
Heartless Bastards, Arrow, Album Review, Indie Rock, Dangerbird

Heartless Bastards - Arrow - Album Review

If you don’t already know, I’m pretty much a nerd about turntable.fm because it is a great way for me to discover new music. I’ve spent many hours on this addictive website listening to awesome music, meeting other music fanatics, and even meeting some great bands. The thing that is great and shitty (mostly great though) about turntable is t ...

Album Rating:
7
Review By:
Tom Dozois

Zechs Marquise - Getting Paid - Album Review

By:Joel Frieders
Our album review of the progressive rock album Getting Paid from Zechs Marquise.

Zechs Marquise - Getting Paid - Album Review

You ever heard what a bass sounds like when it's trying to gnaw at your fucking ears?

You ever heard a guitar and keys riff on the same riff at the same fucking time and have the riff turn into this head nodding, neck yanking riff that ends up combining the entire band together on one riff so that when the guitar that wa ...

Album Rating:
10
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Digital Leather - Modern Problems - Album Review

By:Tim Baker
Digital Leather, Modern Problems, Album Review, FDH Records

Digital Leather - Modern Problems - Album Review

Last time we heard from Digital Leather they had me doing my best Molly Ringwald dance while kicking in the window of a police cruiser, their latest effort Modern Problems still has me dancing with the reckless abandon of a cutter but without all the ragey adrenaline. It’s all hips and head movement with the occasional self embrace that makes my family uncomforta ...

Album Rating:
9
Review By:
Tim Baker