Silenzio and the Night

About Silenzio and the Night:

A six-piece band from Bristol, comprising drums. percussion, bass, guitar, cello, violin and vocals.

'Louder than War' review of our debut album 'The Harmonic Pull':

"This is English eccentricity and wistfulness of the Divine Comedy mold with a vocal that harks a bit to Morrissey and Hanlon in the early numbers, but with avant-garde and bucolic breakouts and interludes. Shades of Blur/Albarn at their/his most intimate are also there, and a hauntingly insistent violin and cello colour all of the tracks.

Pungent Pulse opens with that Smiths feel, guitars, violin and drums fuelling it along with a moreish rhythm. The vocally vivid, slowly building atmosphere of Calling Today, the languid vocals and sombre mood of Lonely Island, Gone, with its hark back to early Bowie (lyrically and vocally), and its quaint, lovely British theatricality.

And then the first of the three instrumentals, which are kind of weird and noirishly atmospheric, jazzy, cinematic and moody. Strange is atmospheric and hypnotic; Dry Fear (Berlin Code) is a minimalistic Krautrockish radio-frequency doodle. All Change, very Albarn, violin and vocal poignancy, touching break-up blues, End Of The Day and Torn, similar veins, beginning plaintively and changing tones and mood, dramatically for the former and jauntier for the latter. Stone, Paper is sinisterly oddball, and Leviathan is a tale in Fall style.

It's an interesting album, one that takes risks within its own very defined languid and dramatic styles."

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