SYML is the moodier solo venture of former Barcelona frontman and Seattle native Brian Fennell. He broke through with his 2017 song "Where's My Love," which spent 20 weeks on Billboard's Hot Rock Songs chart. He gained wider attention with his 2019 full-length debut, SYML, and has continued to refine his sound, releasing the EPs You Knew It Was Me (2020) and DIM (2021), and the 2022 streaming hit "You and I." His Phil Ek-produced sophomore album, The Day My Father Died, appeared in early 2023.
As SYML, Fennell is more textural and sensory than Barcelona's piano rock, framing...