A Sonically Vast Single from Silk
A brand-new release from Silk delivers an incredibly vast soundscape that borders on a grunge and shoegaze approach, with sonically driving guitar tones that are drenched in reverb, allowing you to get engulfed in the tones that are delivered effortlessly. It all feels amazing to be swallowed up by.
I feel like this track brings together some of the best elements of the heavier and more cinematic, expansive rock approaches because it pulls in that sort of graceful flow that you can swim through, along with a bit of emotional drive and edgy tonality coming from those guitars, drums, and bass guitar.
The combination of those heavier, edgier elements and the softer, more beautiful ones is amazing to listen to, and it does create an atmosphere that pulls you in. Once you're in this atmosphere, you don't really want to leave. You just want to stay there and drink it all in.
The single is called "but then, yes" (featuring AJ Das), and right from the start, you have a heavier kind of riff again, just swimming in that reverb effect, distancing it and adding a depth to the track and soundscape itself.
The drums are pretty heavy hitting, but they also breathe and add liveliness to the track so that it has that forward-moving and natural sort of flow, but when it needs to get explosive and intense, the drumming pushes that forward.
The way this track was built is something I enjoyed. There is a particular setup to how this song evolves, and it has to do with bringing things to a climactic point and letting that take over when it needs to. When those bigger parts come along, there are more guitars and a thicker atmosphere around you, which has a heavier punch and hits a little harder.
It's funny because the music of this track is really what brings the emotional intensity along. You can hear it in the progression of the song and the different parts coming together.
Performed by AJ Das, the vocals are beautifully done and drift along, inviting you to drift right alongside them. They are dreamy, and that dream-gaze style and aesthetic is so overtaking at times that you forget where you are.
This song is a bit of an escape. It pulls you away from wherever you are and whatever you're doing and puts you in a different space for a little chunk of time.
That, to me, is like a gift.
I definitely love the old-school and sort of vintage '90s underground shoegaze Aesthetics that are delivered across this track because they're genuine.
There's nothing about the song that doesn't feel authentic and derived from those classic kinds of tracks that we grew up listening to.
Is the track you dive right into, and if you listen to it with headphones on, it really takes over.
This is a track with many textural layers to it, and when you listen to that with headphones on, you can pick up on all the stuff floating around in the song's ether.
The vocals are almost like instruments themselves, providing an extra layer and melody to the already lush sound, and when you finish the track, you sort of have to shake it off.
When I listen to this track with headphones on, I have to reactivate myself back to reality once again, and this is indeed something I would look for from a good shoegaze style track.
Everything was well thought out here. There is a certain looseness to it which is part of the shoegaze style as well; however, everything in terms of the progressions, Arrangement, and compositions was very well done, and there was attention to detail with those aspects as well as the mix of this single.
This is not something I always touch on, but the mix of this track was done incredibly well.
You have to layer different kinds of reverb and depth to give the guitars, vocals, even drums and bass guitar at times, to pull off the right aesthetic for proper shoegaze approaches.
I'm no master at that kind of thing myself, but I can tell you that whoever made this track, whether it was the band or not, was very aware of their mission.
This was a genuine shoegaze opus, and it's something that gave me bouts of nostalgia and just engulfed me right into its entire field of sound within seconds.
If you were a fan of true shoegaze, grunge, garage-gaze, dream gays, dream-rock, any of that stuff, then this track is going to be 100% for you.
Take a deep dive into this one and again, listen with headphones because it is the best way to do it, hands down.
