At this point, the Silos are considered a national treasure of American rock music. They were alt-country and post-punk before there even was such a thing. We are looking forward to sharing the stage with our long-time friends.
These folks in Parksville, NY are doing something so great. For anyone who remembers a time when a “scene” meant that creative people were transforming a place by filling it with art and music, having a blast and leaving the bullshit out of it… This is it. It’s happening here. Thanks to everyone.
It was a pleasure to see this — the second show in 26 years for Folk Implosion. It was a sparkly GIFT to be able to open for them!
The band had a great performance, an in-depth interview and sold some records on Talk Shop Live.
Check out the full video here.
As legend has it, this record started as a “psychic download” of 50 song ideas. A fantasy about having Steve Albini mix the album became a shocking and wonderful reality.
The music is being described as “Genre Fluid,” “UAP (Unidentified Audio Phenomena)” and “Artdeathcountryindiealternativerock.”
The next album is already underway.
May 08, 2024 — If the duty in this life is to do good work, and help others do good work before we leave, Steve Albini clearly did the right thing. He is leaving behind a stellar legacy of truly outstanding work. We are SO grateful that we had the privilege of working with him before he parted. It’s always strange and unsettling when the good ones go too soon. Let’s all spend a week listening ONLY to his recordings. Play it as LOUD as you can stand it. Let’s send him off with raucous sounds and big black memories.
This was supposed to be recorded as a soft, subliminal message in Mindless Apparition—track #7 on Hide and Shine’s debut Soft Machines:
In a metal cage on a sunny day, I begged them please—might I again be a useful slave? I’ve been faithful but for that one mistake—those thoughts I had while bathing in the real mountain stream. Electrical dreams don’t always satisfy the hungry human specter. But I promise… I promise… I retched all that is real, forcibly from from my heart. We can restart.
I just listened to Kashmir (it’s been a while). It’s pure evil. It’s truly heavy. It’s just one scrawny guitar. Somehow the combination of beat, drone, Mellotron(?) and Celtic magic evokes an image of trudging forever across the dessert, camels and minds bearing heavy loads, not knowing where we are going, but certain it will be better than where we came from. Heavy.
This fourteen song debut release will hit on June 7, 2024. It is a fine collection of moody, energetic, esoteric art-death-country-alternative songs. Recorded in Kingston/Rhinecliffe NY and mixed by Steve Albini at Chicago’s Electrical Audio.
Master Shadow speaks to me
I hear his whisper
It’s brighter than you think
It makes me drink
From the fountain
From the spring
Wherever Shadow leads
I will follow
Into the town
Into the hollow
When I arrive
She is there
Madame Reflection
She knows who we are
In which direction we will go
In search of tomorrow
Or in the past’s serene sorrow
When she reveals
I may seek
To run retreat
Or step in deeper
Master Shadow
Mistress Reflection
Make mistakes
Make corrections
Show me darkness
Give me light
One by day
One by night
In the gutter
In moth wing’s flutter
Lamplight’s son
Mirror’s daughter