Silver Lake, California. Hipster suburb of East LA, preferred haunt of artists and bohemians, and fertile ground for a burgeoning independent scene: gentle souls bringing folk, soft rock, chamber pop and psychedelia together to create meticulously crafted yet beautifully balmy music that captures the ache of the human condition in universally relatable terms. But just what decade are we in? Because the mid-2020s in this happening ’hood are sounding a lot like the early 1970s.
As Sylvie, musician and producer Ben Schwab collapses the years which separate Jackson Browne, Beck, Elliott Smith and onetime bandmate Sam Burton, living up to the easy listening cosmic country vibe of the Matthews Southern Comfort song from which he took his outfit’s name.

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