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To follow up their shoegaze-speckled bedroom pop single “Microwave S’mores” from May, which Impose Magazine described as a “delightfully mind-bending listening experience”, Silver Liz takes a stylistic left turn in embracing a myriad of electronic influences on their new single “There’s No Need”.
While guitars are virtually absent, the influence of shoegaze bands like My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive that characterized Silver Liz’s previous work is still present. Echoes of dreamy vocals dissolve in reverb while lush textures of analog synth and samples of an a cappella group encapsulate the listener. All of this is propelled by a pulsating four-on-the-floor house shuffle.
Vaporwave’s influence is also apparent. The duo was forced to pitch shift and slow down the entire track to avoid an issue with streaming services. After uploading a test version of the track to Spotify under a pseudonym to test the loudness, the duo was not able to reupload the track. The distributor kept flagging the track as a duplicate upload, despite the duo removing the test track and making obvious changes to the new version.
The whole thing feels like a dance track with a slice of a pop song in the middle. The verse and hook of the song come in around the 1:30 mark, and then they only happen once. There is a minimal amount of words in the song, and the lyrics are sung in fragments that hypnotically echo and fade. The first line of the verse is simply “stay, stay inside”, which today, means something totally different than what the band meant when they wrote the track two years ago, not knowing, of course, about the future pandemic at the time. In that way, the track almost seems like a weird foreshadowing of what was to come.
“The cliché thing to do for a celebratory dance track like this would be to make it about going out and having fun with your friends. But instead, we thought it would be funny to make it about doing the exact opposite”, says the duo. “Now, during quarantine, the lyrics might sound a bit imperative. But for us, the track actually is celebratory. Most days, we love having an excuse to stay in and work on music.”
The duo is releasing their new single in anticipation of their second full-length album, release date TBA.
credits
released October 12, 2020
Vocals - Carrie & Matt Wagner
Programming, synthesizers, guitar, etc. - Matt Wagner
Produced by Carrie & Matt Wagner
Engineered, mixed, and mastered by Matt Wagner
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Hugely underated band from Brisbane, Australia. For the better part of a decade their music has been a stellar influence on the swirling shoegaze scene of South East Queensland. Deserving of a wider audience, I hope they get to tour Internationally trenton99
On their latest LP, the Austin group peel away the synth and distortion to highlight the jangly melodies at the core of their songs. Bandcamp Album of the Day Mar 9, 2022
