Nick's band, 'Shylo' includes Jeff Samin on guitar & vocals, Rohan Brooks on drums, Daniel Rolfe on bass & vocals and Dave Rose on keys and percussion & vocals.
Influences
The Anyones (Everyones), The Pixies, Neil Young, The Zombies, The Shins, The Byrds, Lalo Schifrin, My Morning Jacket, Bernard Hermann, Deerhoof, Teenage Fanclub, Johnny Cash, Serge Gainsbourg, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Blondie, Big Star, Broadcast, Gram Parsons, The Louvin Brothers, Stereolab, Daniel Johnston, Simon & Garfunkel, Townes Van Zandt, Sparklehorse, Ween, Machine Translations, Bee Gees, Angelo Badalamenti, The Kinks, Nick Drake, The Incredible String Band, Yo La Tengo, Fred Neil, Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra, Barry Adamson, Gene Clark, The Sleepy Jackson, The Easybeats, The Jam, The Crayon Fields, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Elliott Smith, Neutral Milk Hotel, Leonard Cohen, The Bees, 13th Floor Elevators, Ennio Morricone, Dan Kelly, Beta Band, Beck, The Association, Tom Waits, The Smiths, Beechwood Sparks, Iggy & The Stooges, The Turtles, Calexico, Everly Brothers, Rolling Stones, Sufijan Stephens, Bread, Gillian Welsh, Pavement, The Books, Magnetic Fields, Buffalo Springfield, Cat Power, Bob Dylan, Okkerville River, DJ Shadow, XTC, Beach Boys, Carpenters, The Black Keys, Velvet Underground, MC5, Love, Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth, Jerry Goldsmith, Early REM, The Arcade Fire, The Beatles, John Barry, Swervedriver, C S & N, The La's, Elvis Costello, The Small Faces, Smog, Gordon Lightfoot, Wilco, Chris Knox, Josh Rouse, Low, The White Stripes, The Band, Mogwai etc.
Sounds Like
Sounds eclectic. Sounds like my influences. Sounds like me. Sounds like.
NEW SONGS IN THE MAKING! NICK MURPHY AND SHYLO PROUDLY ANNOUNCE THAT A NEW ALBUM HAS BEEN WRITTEN AND THAT RECORDING AND PRODUCTION IS OFFICIALLY UNDERWAY. COME AND HEAR SOME NEW TUNES WHEN NM & SHYLO GIVE A BIT OF TASTE AT THE LABOUR IN VAIN IN FITZROY, SUNDAY 30th MARCH FROM 4PM ONWARDS....
"Nick Murphy is a talented man. He has recorded an album of stunning harmonic depth, divine orchestration and a gentle humanity. In the tradition of Brian Wilson and Tony Asher's teenage symphonies to God, these songs are sumptuous paeans to the Australian suburbs and domestic love. Live, his band and he pull it off with style and subtlety. At their album launch at the Hopetoun Hotel in Sydney they made that tiny pub sound like a concert hall." TOBY MARTIN, YOUTH GROUP
Nick Murphy has been performing and co-song writing with highly acclaimed and popular Melbourne act, THE ANYONES (known as "THE EVERYONES" in the US), since co-forming the band in 1997. In 2006 Nick recorded and released his debut solo effort, "Breaking The Light", out through Cavelier & Shock. Since then Nick and his amazing band, Shylo, have toured consistently across this wide land with such stellar Oz acts as Youth Group, Dan Kelly and The Alphamales, Even, Ground Components, The Gin Club, Sceamfeeder and Gersey.
"Breaking the Light is... a pop album in the old fashioned sense, a confident collection of impeccably well written, sweetly sung songs that reveal a sensitive and perceptive musicians heart." 4 STARS THE AGE (Melbourne) 14th July 2006
Breaking The Light "was one of the under-heralded gems of last year – a mélange of styles and sounds that somehow meshes into an album that is vibrant, varied and interesting while retaining a sense of cohesion. It is this cohesion that usually goes missing as an artist tries to obtain that elusive title of "indefinable". Wireless Bollinger, Feb 07
As well as receiving critical acclaim and high rotation for their 2 full length albums (the 2nd album released in the US on Tee Pee Records, NYC, of Brian Jonestown Massacre fame), The Anyones toured extensively throughout Australia and the US with international and Australian acts including The Music, Morissey, Sloan, Jet, The Killers, Presidents of the United States, Brad, Dallas Crane, Rocket Science, The Vines, Magic Dirt, Youth Group, Motor Ace & 78 Saab.
"Nick Murphy has taken a more confident, intimate and visionary approach to his first solo album, imbuing his subtle, well-crafted songs with warm psychedelic emotion and gentle country elements... but its Murphys honest talent and sweet voice that really stand out." 3 STARS ROLLING STONE Oct 06.
"Breaking The Light" features some of Melbourne's finest musicians including Ross McLennan (Snout), Dave Ong (Jonie Lightning), Steve Pinkerton (The Anyones), Ben Mason (The Smallgoods), Phillipa Nihill (Underground Lovers), Chris Brodie (Broken Arrows), Jeff Samin (Musket) and explores Nick's psychadelic country lover affair with a telecaster, delay pedal and tremelo box.
Hi Nick & Shylo, Just letting you know... I'm performing an acoustic set of soul-rnb this Sunday 15 June at: Bar Nancy 61 High Street Northcote (Westgarth) 6.30pm (Support is Lauren King) Hope you can make it!
Hey Nick, just wanted to let you know that your last gig was great. Heard that u wernt sure about it but lauren and my girlfriend really enjoyed it. Really looking forward to the next albulm even if your job's in jeopardy :P By the way, i played my singing teacher elated and i thought you might want to know that she'd like me and some other guys to perform it sometime this year. Thanks again for the music, Cheers, Chris
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hey, i know its the worst when people suggest bands that they hear in your music, but i'm a big fan of elbow and the dandys... nice sound guys. hope to see you around the traps eh.
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Hey folks. Hope you’re doing well. Would love to see you at the Wellingtons headline show THIS SAT OCT 6th at the rob roy it’ll be fun I promise we play at 11:30 $8 Thanks hope to see ya there. love the wellingtons
That influence list gives me a boner! but then your songs give me spoons all night, under a cosmic electric blanket, while a snowflake explodes against the window outside.
Hello, and thanks for the request, i'm so onored! Compliments, your space it's a nice place and your sound it's awesome! Nice to meet YOU, best wishes, Valérie.
