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Ivy League Records is proud to announce that Sam Teskey - lead guitarist, ARIA Award winning and Grammy-nominated engineer from The Teskey Brothers - has released his debut solo album Cycles to the world. Cycles is a cosmic journey, from sprawling, orchestral balladry to dissonant, ambient soundscapes, from folk to heavy psych-rock freak outs, it’s a surprising, thrilling and immersive listen. Sam Teskey is best known as the lead guitarist for local heroes The Teskey Brothers, with whom he has won four ARIA Awards (including Engineer Of The Year), four Music Victoria Awards and an APRA Award across their second and widely-acclaimed album Run Home Slow (#2 ARIA debut) & their 2020 live album, Live At The Forum (#1 ARIA debut). Recognised on the world stage for his work engineering Run Home Slow, Sam was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. Relishing the opportunity to share more of his music and inspired by the great English psychedelic bands of the late 60s and 70s, like Pink Floyd and specifically their album Meddle, Sam was keen to make a record that could be enjoyed as a whole, from start to finish. Before settling on the title Cycles, Sam Teskey came close to leaving his debut album untitled. Not because the singer and guitarist didn’t know what he wanted to say, but rather because he wants to present his album as an open canvas, one that leaves room for the listener to project themselves onto the music. “A big point of this album is for people to create their own journey and their own story with it,” Teskey says. “There’s lots of things that I can explore and think about and say about the record, but I really want to leave the experience up to the listener. To see what comes to them. It’s feels really nice to put the creativity back in the listeners’ hands.”