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Californian dark wave duo Silence In The Snow has released its third full-length, Ghost Eyes, via Prophecy Productions. It awaits you in the player below.
There are only a few bands that manage to combine the classic spirit of dark wave and post-punk with emotional musical intelligence. Silence In The Snow can easily count themselves among this vanguard. The duo has recently relocated from Oakland to Arcata in the North of California, a town situated at the picturesque Arcata Bay that opens into the Pacific Ocean and is surrounded on land by national parks and Redwood forests.
This move might partly explain why its third full-length, Ghost Eyes, comes with a warm, organic sound and rich sonic textures that outshine already highly praised previous releases. Ghost Eyes carries a musical wisdom and maturity that makes the melodic, dreamy, expansive, and immersive songs on the album stand out well defined against a stylistic background, that exists in a space between dark wave, post-punk, and alternative rock.
Yet the Americans have clearly defined their own sound, which also incorporates contemporary ingredients. Particularly the interplay between Cyn M and drummer Trevor DeSchryver, who has credits from Wolves In The Throne Room and Deafheaven, among many others to his name, is creating pure musical magic that gives acoustic form to the duo's vision to capture a spiritual and temporal awakening that occurs as a result of all the challenges, obstacles, and trauma experienced on Ghost Eyes.
When Cyn M emerged with the self-released Silence In The Snow debut, Break In The Skin, onto the Californian scene in 2016, the album offered a deliberately minimalist palette of sounds with a clear focus on the emotional side of music. Rave reviews and word of mouth spread across the Atlantic, but instead of resting on her laurels, Cyn M dared to venture into new sonic dimensions by adding real organic drumming to the sophomore full-length Levitation Chamber (2019).
Although Levitation Chamber was also greeted with open arms by critics and fans alike, in hindsight and by comparison, it also becomes evident that the second effort was still driven by experimentation and a search-forward motion in fascinating ways. With its third album, the Californian duo have arrived where they want to be: Ghost Eyes is the defining album and the creative ground from which Silence In The Snow will reach new emotional heights. Link
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