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01. SILO - Filaments
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02. SILO - Mechanics
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03. SILO - Stationary
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04. SILO - Untitled 1
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05. SILO - Cabinn Fever (feat. High Priest and M. Sayyid)
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06. SILO - A Hedge Is a Lance
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07. SILO - Power Points (feat. Maria Hamer-Jensen)
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08. SILO - Untitled 2
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09. SILO - Work (Out)
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10. SILO - O (feat. Jonas Bjerre)
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11. SILO - Generals
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12. SILO - The Inexorable Sadness of Pencils
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ARTIST
SILO
TITLE
Work
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
NOVENNIAL PARALYSIS
CATALOG #
NOVE 001LP
NOVE 001LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
5/27/2014
LP version.
Work
is the first release in 12 years by Denmark's best-kept secret: digital power-rock trio
Silo
. Back in the 1990s the group --
Frederik Ammitzbøll
(guitars),
Mikkel Bender
(bass) and
Søren Dahlgaard
(drums) -- were the most abrasive act signed by Swim Records, the independent label founded by
Wire
frontman
Colin Newman
and his wife
Malka Spigel
. After releasing two albums --
Instar
(1998) and
Alloy
(2001) -- and appearing live with the likes of
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
,
Sigur Rós
,
Trans Am
and
Pole
, the group, who came together as students, drifted off into family life and gainful employment. Frederik works in IT and co-runs avantgarde menswear label Uncommon Creatures, Søren is a full-time artist and Mikkel works with patents. But now Silo have reloaded with their distinctive twisted metal sound, built on crunchy digitized guitars, beats that crack like a boltcutter and a sturdy industrial rhythm matrix.
Work
is the long hours and collective effort required to make music and keep a band together in the first place; it's what prevents musicians from coming back to it, too.
Work
is a summing-up of tracks they have been intermittently recording and reworking over the past decade. Jagged edges, distorted sound-clouds and swarming guitars are the trademarks, but the Teutonic-edged grooves make the whole thing fly. Hard labor goes into designing the guitar parts, which are digitally sculpted and processed. With its swooning chord changes and super-fuzzed guitar textures, Silo's immersive sound recalls groups like
My Bloody Valentine
and
Band Of Susans
, while packing the punch of acts like
Helmet
or
Dälek
. Thanks to their admiration for leftfield hip-hop producers such as
J Dilla
and
Sa-Ra Creative Partners
, their beats are cranky and off-center, and on "Cabinn Fever" (named after the Danish hotel chain where the track was recorded) Silo recruit
High Priest
and
M Sayyid
of
Antipop Consortium
for a channel-hopping rap taking in everything from
Eric Clapton
to
747s
. Other guests include R&B/pop vocalist
Maria Hamer-Jensen
and
Mew
's
Jonas Bjerre
. And who can resist a title like "The Inexorable Sadness of Pencils?" The album's yearning, closing instrumental is inspired by a poem by American author
Theodore Roethke
. It describes the sadness of offices and public spaces where dust and boredom have accumulated -- echoing the album sleeve photo of a room piled with unread newspapers. Plug in to Silo and blow the dust out of the corners of your life.
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