Silver Columns Announce Debut Album Details, Tour Dates & Tickets
Monday, 10 May 2010
Written by Stereoboard.com
When Silver Columns' white label singles "Brow Beaten" and "Yes, and Dance" mysteriously emerged, glinting and fully-formed, seemingly from nowhere last year, tongues were set wagging.
There hadn't been anything quite like them before - "Brow Beaten" was a skittering, helter-skelter electro pop jolt to the heart, sounding not unlike the spirit of Erasure trapped in an arcade pinball machine, while "Yes, and Dance" - cheekily, their own remix of a yet to be released track - was lush, slowed down, hallucinatory - the drowsy, lysergic morning after the messy night before. It was a brilliantly askew one-two pop punch unlike any other, and as fitting an introduction as any to Silver Columns.
However, the duo (revealed earlier this year to be Adem and The Pictish Trail) have plenty of other tricks up their sleeve, as abundantly displayed on "YES, AND DANCE", their endlessly innovative debut long player. Conceived, recorded and produced together (despite the fact they live on opposite ends of the UK) in less than a year, it is quite possibly the most unique, beautiful and offbeat pop album you'll hear all year, created, as it is, by two excessively talented mavericks who had never even made this kind of music before.
This is without a doubt a dance record. But it is also a dance record quite unlike any other - dance music as approached by a couple of mad scientists who have pulled it apart, genetically spliced it with other, unusual elements and reassembled it to create all manner of strange and wonderful new shapes. So, on the one hand you have vintage Underworld shapes bubbling gently through the propulsive pop structures of "Always On", and on the other, the slow build tearjerker "Heart Murmurs", which could almost be Arthur Russell had he stayed a little longer at the disco party; or you can find the riproaring, call and response dynamics of madcap upcoming single "Cavalier" (Out 17th May) nestling side by side with the anthemic, uplifting closer "Way Out".
Through it all, it is Silver Columns' restless creative drive, their willingness to experiment with form and function, but most importantly, to make dance music imbued with heart, warmth and soul, that forms the connective tissue between these songs, and makes "YES, AND DANCE" stand entirely in a league of its own.
VIDEO FOR FIRST PROPER SINGLE "Cavalier" OUT 17TH MAY
Silver Columns now unveil their debut music video for first proper single "Cavalier" released on 17th May, two weeks upfront of "YES, AND DANCE":
"YES, AND DANCE" TRACKLISTING
01. Cavalier
02. To Wake You
03. Yes, and Dance
04. Always On
05. Brow Beaten
06. Columns
07. Warm Welcome
08. Is It Still You
09. Heart Murmurs
10. Way Out
SILVER COLUMNS UPCOMING LIVE SHOWS
MAY
13 - The Great Escape, Brighton
19 - Topman CTRL w/ Yeasayer, London
22 - Stag and Dagger, Glasgow
29 - Green Man Boat Party, London
29 - Dot To Dot Festival, Bristol
30 - Dot To Dot Festival, Nottingham
30 - Neon Noise Project & Lovebox @ KOKO, London
JUNE
11 - Club NME @ KOKO, London
17 - Madonna Tribute @ ABC, Glasgow
JULY
09 - Lounge On The Farm, Canterbury
18 - Lovebox Festival, London
AUGUST
19 - Green Man Festival, Wales
SEPTEMBER
09 - Bestival, Isle of Wight
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