01 Flash of Light
02 Night Shades
03 Sand
04 Cheap Shot
05 Fragmented Mirror
06 In This Place
07 Birds of Passion
08 Costume
09 Running Out of Rope
10 Shadows in Daylight
When Dean Spunt from No Age says, of Silk Flowers, "they're probably the weirdest band I know," it's not hyperbole out to hype a record he's putting out on his own Post Present Medium label. Because Silk Flowers are a weird band.
It starts with Aviram Cohen's weird singing; an affected, self-parodying baritone moan that sounds like a stand-up comedian doing a mocking impersonation of Scott Walker. Drawing from the proto-electro dissonance of '70s pioneers Suicide or nasty early-'80s provocateurs Throbbing Gristle, the music matching Cohen's comic crooning is full of clunky, lumpen drum-machine thunk and eerie synthesizer sound.
Recorded by Fred Thomas —the longtime frontman of indie-pop outfit Saturday Looks Good to Me who, this year, reinvented himself as experimentalist with his City Center project— the album has a fuzzy, muffled, no-fidelity sound. In fact, it sounds a lot like Ariel Pink's warped, wobbly take on archaic analogue sound.
Since forming in New York last year, Silk Flowers have opened up shows for Animal Collective, Crystal Stilts, Blank Dogs, Grouper and High Places, and have toured with their label-bosses, No Age, themselves. Post Present Medium has just released Silk Flowers' debut, self-titled LP, and the band will be taking their weird music onto the road in support of such. Dates, and single "Flash of Light," below.
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