The Silent Years - The Globe
Heavily laced with space age jingly-jangly things, The Globe is a varied and sweeping epic from start to finish.
Photocopied fanzines are quickly becoming things of the past, and the socially awkward teens that once flogged them at gigs are also seeing numbers decline. These are just two of the inevitable consequences one has to accept as an online generation transcends; we live in a world where discoveries are no longer serendipitous. Hot new trends, direct to your desktop; localised weather reports, by the hour, and based on your recent activity, here are some bands you’ll no doubt listen to for five minutes, then forget about – cheers very much.
If someone thinks it’s worth you knowing about, more often than not, it’s tweeted in an instant, blogged about for a week and forgotten when something tastier arrives. But, as with any such phenomenon, there has to be the occasional anomaly. Sometimes it’s the enduring, un-talked-about underdogs – often most worthy of mentions, escaping the hype - who capture our hearts in spite of what lovely Professor Spotify chose on our behalf. With not even so much as a Wikipedia article to their name, The Silent Years are but one such un-Googleable gem. Heavily laced with space age jingly-jangly things, The Globe is a varied and sweeping epic from start to finish. ‘Black Hole’ marches, cocksure like Kings Of Leon, while ‘Know Your Place’ slides listlessly from Bloc Party stomp to a quivering disarray of emotions laid bare.
Name-checking songs won’t cut it, though; there’s too much variety on display to really be done justice in fewer than 300 words. What’s most alluring about this record is that, while so many bands promise the world and fail to deliver, The Silent Years are just themselves. There’s no grand gesture, no real trademark or gimmick; before us, quite simply, are 16 beautifully emotive tracks, lovingly performed and packaged. If there’s one nit to be picked, however, it’s just that perhaps a more cutthroat approach to editing would have helped. Less is more, you know.
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