Described as Voice, tapes, bass, strings, reeds, drums, small sounds, big sounds, sunlight, moonlight, a lot of water…the sound world of Coral Rose & friends, known as The Silver Field is both hypnotic and enchanting in equal measure. Their second album Sing High! Sing Low! is to be released 12th June 2020 on Crossness Records, a new record label based in Thamesmead, South East London.
The nine tracks that make up the new album are described as exploratory tracks that combine to form an aural postcard – a collection of snapshots following the path of a journey. Leading the advance is the colossal and hypnotic ‘Hearth Bite’. Lyrically, ‘Hearth Bite’ speaks of internal conflict and deconstruction, piecing apart the different ways people can understand themselves and relate to one another, as well as how these ties can be gendered. Rose: “In the sung sections, I’m trying to understand what it means to love, be loved, and to love yourself in these different configurations. The spoken word sections deal with a journey, a decision and a process of moving forward. The combination of the two creates a song that, to me at least, is about leaving behind the past and moving forward with a new understanding and shift in perspective – like the weight has rearranged itself from out of the sky to solid ground under your feet.”
The accompanying press reveals that a familiar part of Rose’s song craft, many of the tracks on Sing High! Sing Low! are formed around tape loops. These loops often go back to The Silver Field’s inception, drawn from the same collection of source material as debut album Rooms (O Genesis Recordings, 2019). What sets these songs apart from their predecessors is a striking new sense of extroversion, an exploratory propulsion, charting new musical territory while holding tight to the homemade idiosyncrasies of her previous work. Rose’s vocals stand front and centre, her sonic tapestries unfurled to their fullest, her storytelling more vibrantly human than ever before.
Sing High! Sing Low! is out on 12 June and can now be pre-ordered on Bandcamp – https://thesilverfield.bandcamp.com/
UK tour dates, Spring 2020
4th March – BBC Hall at Swansea Studios, Swansea
5th March – Rough Trade, Bristol (w/ Housewives)
6th March – SET, London
8th March – Elsewhere, Margate
9th March – The Prince Albert, Brighton
10th March – Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth
11th March – The Talleyrand, Manchester
13th March – Leith Depot, Edinburgh
14th March – The Glad Café, Glasgow
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