Info
- Genre
- American Underground
- Members
- Sean Allen
- Josh Garrett Davis
- Iñaki Domench
- Hometown
- Brooklyn
- Biography
- First off, something we wish we had written, but didn’t:“Upon slapping it in the player, I was taken back to a time in North American underground music when the lines of what was ‘punk’ or ‘hardcore’ weren’t so black and white. Bands could sound like pretty much anything, and it was cool as long as it was well outside what was considered ‘normal.’ Krylls would have fit in nicely.” (Razorcake)Krylls is a punk rock band. There’s no concept, no period costumes or haircuts, just three guys with wide-ranging tastes playing fast or slow (usually fast), hard or soft (usually hard), and weird or straight (usually weird). Our live shows are full-bore and sweaty—gas mask microphone, screaming guitar lying on the floor at the end—but of course we also scale the heights of seriosity with lyrical poetry like “I play guitarra!/ I’m Che Guevara!” With any luck, we snag some of that old North American underground energy, from back when you didn’t have to be cool to be cool. Sub-subgenre: Contrapunk? Paleo-dancecore? Post-biker rock?Krylls formed in New York City in 2004, when Sean Allen (guitar, vocals) and Josh Garrett-Davis (bass, vocals) set out to remake a band that had fallen apart. First, we tried a riot grrl singer, then a hardcore shrieker-dude, and when those didn’t pan out, we decided to localize the vocalize and rise up singing ourselves. Finally, settled as a three-piece, we came to incorporate musical influences from Texas boogie to SoCal punk-funk to stoner metal to our own sometimes unhinged imaginations. In 2008, Iñaki Domench joined us on the drums, bringing his Basque punk influence all the way from Pamplona, globalizing the old underground.
Another underground habit is ye olde DIY: recording, booking shows, making our own website, etc. (Of course we also rely on the help of friends who draw awesome zombies and monsters, and of the Whores 4 Krylls, who give out CDs and buttons to their friends, er… johns.) We released a 5-song demo EP, first called “Orange”—titled, again poetically, after the color of blank discs that were cheapest—then simply “Krylls.”
As the economy tumbled down the stairs in early 2009, we lacked the cheddar to press our almost-full-length, “My Little Danish Friend,” so we posted it for download on our website at the price of pay-what-you-wish. (In our case, the celebrated “Radiohead model” became more like e-busking, shaking a digital Burger King cup in the subway.)
And now? We’re back in the inventor’s toolshed hammering out crinkum-crankum jams for the new Depression, and we’re coming out with some crazy contraption that might scare you, but you’ll like it in spite of yourself.
- First off, something we wish we had written, but didn’t:“Upon slapping it in the player, I was taken back to a time in North American underground music when the lines of what was ‘punk’ or ‘hardcore’ weren’t so black and white. Bands could sound like pretty much anything, and it was cool as long as it was well outside what was considered ‘normal.’ Krylls would have fit in nicely.” (Razorcake)Krylls is a punk rock band. There’s no concept, no period costumes or haircuts, just three guys with wide-ranging tastes playing fast or slow (usually fast), hard or soft (usually hard), and weird or straight (usually weird). Our live shows are full-bore and sweaty—gas mask microphone, screaming guitar lying on the floor at the end—but of course we also scale the heights of seriosity with lyrical poetry like “I play guitarra!/ I’m Che Guevara!” With any luck, we snag some of that old North American underground energy, from back when you didn’t have to be cool to be cool. Sub-subgenre: Contrapunk? Paleo-dancecore? Post-biker rock?Krylls formed in New York City in 2004, when Sean Allen (guitar, vocals) and Josh Garrett-Davis (bass, vocals) set out to remake a band that had fallen apart. First, we tried a riot grrl singer, then a hardcore shrieker-dude, and when those didn’t pan out, we decided to localize the vocalize and rise up singing ourselves. Finally, settled as a three-piece, we came to incorporate musical influences from Texas boogie to SoCal punk-funk to stoner metal to our own sometimes unhinged imaginations. In 2008, Iñaki Domench joined us on the drums, bringing his Basque punk influence all the way from Pamplona, globalizing the old underground.
- Current Location
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Brooklyn
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- Press Contact
- krylls@krylls.com
- Influences
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Atticus Finch, Lars Ulrich, Flavor Flav
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- Websites
Press
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“Upon slapping it in the player, I was taken back to a time in North American underground music when the lines of what was ‘punk’ or ‘hardcore’ weren’t so black and white. Bands could sound like pretty much anything, and it was cool as long as it was well outside what was considered ‘norm” – Ty Stranglehold – Razorcake
- “Oh my god, this is awesome. “I play geetara / I’m Che Guevara / I blast Sandanista / Soy Anarchista / ANARCHY!!!” sung with an earnest commitment to being as annoying as possible, almost like the front man is the Fred Schneider of post-hardcore. Loud, goofy, great.” – Myspace Music Reviews
