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Flowers In May / Big Dreams And The Headlines / Never Be That Tough / We Didn't Know / Silver Silver / What The Devil Brings / Long Moon / In The Water Where The City Ends / Star / Frogs / Now The Revolution / Bonnie Brae / Every Little Now And Then Silver Silver is LA-based singer-songwriter Simone White’s most affecting and ambitious album yet. In contrast to her folk/country-tinged 2007 debut, I Am The Man, and 2009's quiet offering, Yakiimo, Silver Silver has White's soft voice framed by complex arrangements: there are pulsing, speaker-rattling bass tones, delicately layered vocal harmonies, and exquisitely lush washes of sound. It is also the singer's most personal record to date: ‘A lot of stuff happened during the production. Two deaths, a breakup… fell in love.’ Fans of White's work may already be aware of her unusual life story. Born in Hawaii to a light-sculptor dad and folk-singer mum, burlesque grandmother and pop-song-writing aunt, White grew up moving across the US, her parents following the demands of a cult leader. Leaving home in her teens, White travelled, acted, took photos and made films, living in Seattle, Paris and London-finally finding her voice as a musician in New York City. She worked with Nashville producer Mark Nevers (Lambchop, Bonnie Prince Billy) on her first two albums. MOJO welcomed her as ‘not just a pretty voice but a mesmerizing intelligence’, and NME described her songs as ‘rich in yearning, despair and very American symbolism’. Audi delivered an award-winning international ad campaign sound-tracked by the The Beep Beep Song. (Lately, you may have heard her river-clear voice in an Omega commercial… with Nicole Kidman enacting the lyrics of Bunny In A Bunny Suit!) Heralded by Rolling Stone Germany as ‘one of the really great American songwriters’, White toured Europe regularly for three years before taking a break to make Silver Silver. She lives now in Echo Park, L.A., in ‘a wee bungalow with a vegetable garden’. It's no coincidence that grand themes mix with tiny details on her new album: ‘After my friend died, I felt insanely present and alive in the mundane and every day for several weeks, almost a psychedelic high,’ White says. ‘I felt like she was looking through my eyes and telling me every moment was precious. Your hand on the door knob, turning it, the door opens, you go outside, the trees are standing there, you feel the warmth of the sun.’ Those feelings led White to write Flowers In May, a sensual, bittersweet celebration of life that matches her delicate vocal to a knocking beat, washes of guitar and nocturnal-sounding glitches. Silver Silver was a year in the making, and White worked with Samuel Bing and Julian Wass of Fol Chen at their L.A. studio. ‘It was a very different way of working for me,’ she says. ‘I didn't have many songs when we started so we began with a lot of messing around and improvisation. Samuel kept going away to tour, the recording got spread out. I'm used to writing on guitar, going in the studio and basically recording live with a band. This album grew organically in many directions and built slowly over time. It wasn't like we just took a bunch of my songs and added beats. I played on other instruments, wrote lyrics and melodies after the pieces had evolved. We chopped things up, put them back together, tried things so many different ways. There was an openness and curiosity in the studio which I'd never had with myself, let alone other musicians.’ The record features guest spots from Andrew Bird, Thao, and Victoria Williams (all musician friends White met through touring), and for the first time mixes songs with instrumental segues and textures — including a manipulated field recording of neighbourhood street sounds. (Listen hard and you might hear an ice cream truck.) ‘There's space throughout, and time away from the words. It's what I like to hear in music now, less words, and a little time to consider what you're listening to.’

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Release Date

02.07.2015

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LP66

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I Am The Man Honest Jon´s
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I Am The Man Honest Jon´s
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