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Bay Area’s Silent Pictures Psych-Gaze Album Streaming in Full via PureVolume

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Bay Area’s Silent Pictures Psych-Gaze Album Streaming in Full via PureVolume
Let It Begin LP Now Streaming in Full via
PureVolume

Bay Area's Silent Pictures Psych-Gaze Album Streaming in Full via PureVolume
“…a sound that’s as moody and melodic as the Bay Area itself” – PureVolume
“The sound coming out of Silent Pictures is less a formidable wall and more a shifting dune of sand, all-enveloping and immersive but also wearing and accommodating.”  — PopMatters
California psych-gaze group Silent Pictures are debuting their sophomore LP, Let it Begin, in advance of the official release date via PureVolume. A mix of beachy reverb-jangle, big choruses, swirling strings and more, the full album serves as an excellent demonstration of the group’s wide-spanning expertise and experience.
The full album drifts from ethereal glam rock to noisy psychedelic shoegaze to pure Britpop, an indication of the wide-ranging experience of the musicians that make up Silent Pictures. The skill level allows for the record to float between genres seamlessly, unable to stick to one certain genre, or even stay under the “psych” umbrella. Certainly Brian Jonestown Massacre comes to mind, as member Ricky Maymi had a hand in production, yet it’s easy to compare tracks like “Twisted Smile” to Britpop trailblazers like the Jesus and Mary Chainand the Stone Roses. Not to be nailed down to one era either, Silent Pictures could be perfectly in line on a bill with more modern bands like Allah Lahs or Kevin Morby.
Silent Pictures’ second full length LP was recorded between 2014 and 2015 in California at Sky Lab Studio with Tommy Dietrick (Desert Stars Festival, David J) and on Dave Grohl’slegendary Sound City Neve board at Studio 606. After all tracking and overdubs were completed, individual raw tracks were transferred to studios in Glasgow Scotland, Oslo Norway, San Francisco CA and Los Angeles CA and were mixed by Dave Schiffman (Johnny Cash, BRMC, Dandy Warhols, Charli XCX), Joe Foster (co-founder Creation Records, Television Personalities), John Fryer (This Mortal Coil, Cocteau Twins, 4AD), Ricky Maymi(Brian Jonestown Massacre, Wild Swans) After all mixes were complete, digital and vinyl mastering was done by Howie Weinberg (The Cure, Nirvana, The Clash).

Every instrument and microphone went live to the board and was mastered in analog with knobs and dials. There is no use of digital vocal pitch corrected by auto tune. What you hear is what you get. Says Alexander Mann, “There are so many different styles of music and stories about the human condition and what it means to be in today’s here and now while still appreciating what is good about our shared collected cultural history…soak in what is.”
Let it Begin is officially released this Friday, July 15, via Green Fuse Records and is now streaming via PureVolume. The band will also make an appearance at this fall’s Desert Stars Festival in Joshua Tree, September 23rd -24th.
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Let it Begin Tracklist:

  1. Let it Begin
  2. Twisted Smile
  3. Behind the Scenes
  4. Time Has Broken
  5. Come Around
  6. Far From Reach
  7. Heaven Sent
  8. Fake It (Till We Make It)
  9. Dear John
  10. Forever Your Love
  11. Bad Experiences
  12. Dying for You
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