Ceylon Sailor - Here We Lie

Let the backlash begin because the kids are sick of AI and Ableton-generated music. They’re craving wounded romantics, scruffy guitars, subversive hooks, ramshackle orchestral touches, and communal venues, record labels, and studios. Brooklyn-based countrygaze quintet Ceylon Sailor is right on time.

“I live for 1990s indie rock—to me that is the only indie rock,” shares KM Sigel, the band’s vocalist, guitarist, and main songwriter. “I wanted to do something that has that 1990s organic sound. Something that feels alive with recorded moments that are maybe a bit messy.”

Ceylon Sailor’s debut album, Here We Lie, out [insert release date here], on boutique indie Stunning Models (The Fictionals, Will Stratton and Scheffer Stevens), is an exhilarating throwback meticulously crafted to adhere to lo-fi, chamber pop parameters. The album was recorded with only analog instruments; there are no drum edits; and everything that sounds like an electric guitar is an acoustic distorted within two inches of its life.