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SYCCO’S FIRST EP 
out now via
FUTURE CLASSIC

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SYCCO

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ANNOUNCED AS:

YouTube Music’s Foundry Class of 2021;
Face of Spotify’s Equal Campaign;
Apple Music ‘Up Next’ Artist; and
Levi’s Music Prize Winner 

Sycco (pron. ‘psycho’), aka 19 yo Brisbane First Nations writer/producer/artist Sasha McLeod, today shares her pop-driven, psych-infused, dance-inducing (and concisely titled) debut EP via Future Classic (Flume, G Flip, Buzzy Lee). Listen to Sycco’s First EP HERE and head to Sycco’s YouTube Channel HERE to watch the livestream of the live EP performance followed by the premiere of the glittering new video for ‘Past Life‘ today from 9:00am AEST.

Powered by shimmering, hooky choruses and impressive psych-pop production – the now-signature Sycco style – the EP’s textures sound like what a lava lamp looks like: glowing, fluid, sometimes joyfully surprising in the direction it moves. Throughout the seven tracks, love is a constant but it’s not all heart-eyes and hopeful prospects. “A lot of the EP is about my angry feelings that I bottle up. I write about what I’m going through in my day to day and about love … and being scared of love.” This contrast between exultation and melancholia throughout the EP might just capture the core of Sycco: glimmering choruses that will refuse to leave your frontal lobe, and the secret, scared confessions scrawled between beats.

Of today’s release, Sycco shares: “I can’t even begin to explain how excited I am that ‘Sycco’s First EP’ is actually out there. It’s psychedelic, it’s random, it’s enthusiastic, it’s colourful – it’s everything I wanted ‘Sycco’s First EP’’ to be.”

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To accompany the EP’s release, Sycco shares a video for the new song ‘Past Life’ (premiered via triple j), in which she sings, “I was silent in my past life, I know / Concealed all of my feelings / Have you noticed,” in front of projections of endless possibility. Catch the premiere at 9.45AM AEST HERE.

Sycco’s ascent only started in 2020 (mid-pandemic) but her drippy bops have already landed her in the pages of Vogue, NME, Billboard, Paper, Nylon, and Paste. Hotly tipped as one of the country’s most promising new artists, she’s amassed well over 17 million streams, sold out her debut headline tour, and performed (virtually) for SXSW, triple j’s Like A Version and KCRW. She’s partnered with Buscabulla, Tim Atlas and Oscar Scheller, landed at #29 triple j’s Hottest 100 (the highest ranked new artist in last year’s poll) with ‘Dribble‘, which also won Song of the Year at the Queensland Music Awards, and picked up nominations at the AIR and NIMA Awards.

It’s been a massive week for Sycco as she was announced in YouTube Music’s Foundry Class of 2021 (alongside Snail Mail and Junior Mesa among other global artists on the rise), scored not one but two separate Times Square (NYC) billboards for both Youtube and as the face of Spotify’s Equal Campaign, was named as Apple Music’s Up Next Artist, won the prestigious Levi’s Music Prize, and is featured on the cover of Spotify’s Front Left playlist today – and she’s only just getting started.

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Sycco’s First EP is out now via Future Classic, buy/stream it HERE.

SYCCO’S FIRST EP
TRACKLIST

1. Best Before
2. Past Life
3. Dribble
4. Germs
5. Happy You’re Here
6. My Ways
7. Time’s Up

SYCCO
TOUR DATES

Friday 14th August, Darwin Festival | Darwin NT
Sunday 5th September, Springtime Festival | Gold Coast QLD
Saturday 23rd October, NAIDOC Concert @ UQ | Brisbane QLD
Saturday 6th November, This That Festival | Newcastle NSW 

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AMNPLIFY – JC