Silver Liz - “Dream More Vivid”
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Brooklyn-based duo Silver Liz lead us on a journey through regret, nostalgia, and quiet resignation with the deliciously adventurous “Dream More Vivid.”
“Dream More Vivid” is an eclectic blend of textures and tastefully strange, shimmering atmospherics. Its opening evokes the cinematic, nostalgic, harmonic progression of “Dayvan Cowboy” by Boards of Canada. It feels expansive, emotive and transportive but this is not New Age Electronica... far from it. But you can sense that you are about to listen to music that will stir emotions that are both distant yet familiar.
As the track finds its gear, the mood shifts into a decidedly more 1990s, more alternative and trip hop tone. It advances into what I would describe as a lucid dream where the Sneaker Pimps or Portishead’s shadowy grooves adorn the gritty distortion and Chase Bliss glitchy embellishments of Garbage. It is indie pop music that is incredibly immersive, vivid yet frayed and spiky at the edges. It is truly a whirl of weird and impressively powerful sonic collages.
Even after multiple listens, the composition gives the impression that melody isn’t king. The angelic vocal flutters and drifts as if caught in a storm of noise. It is fragile, weightless and undeniably magnetic. It may not lead the track but it is the most mesmerising and beautiful elements to listen to.
Richly textured and inventive, “Dream More Vivid” is taken from the forthcoming new album III. The albums lyrics further explore emotions of disenchantment, grief, and loneliness as well as finding therapy through storytelling.
The duo adds: “We started writing this record shortly after we relocated from Chicago to Brooklyn in May 2021,” they remember. “We had a lot of college friends from the East Coast who had been living here for a while. We spent our first year sharing a house in Bed-Stuy with two really good friends and then they moved to another city and we moved to our own place. After that, it felt like more and more of our friends were moving away from New York City while we were just getting started.”
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