An impactful album out today from London-based band The Silent Era, Wide And Deep And Cold channels an emotive rock sound with darkly enveloping intrigue. The band has grabbed our ears multiple times the past few months, with the singles “Matter Of Time” and “Oscillations.” We noted upon covering the latter track that our anticipation for this album was high, and the 11 tracks within Wide And Deep And Cold certainly satiate with their stirring songwriting and climactic structural builds.
Following a murkily engaging intro track, “On The Run” sets the album into motion with a fervent, anthemic rock appeal. A six-minute epic, the track commands from its spacious “you are the parasite,” rhythmic throbbing to eruptions of beautiful distortion. The subsequent “Vendetta” continues the passion, melding a grimy industrial-rock vigor with references to personal scars and tumult. The highlights are numerous throughout, from the soaring vocal haunts of impassioned alt-rocker “Dead Of Night” to the gorgeous dreamy atmospherics of finale “Raining, Again,” which concludes this fantastic album with a fully gripping soundscape.
“The metaphor of the ocean, with its vast depths and turbulent waves, perfectly captures the emotions we navigate on this album,” the band says. “We begin in the stormy seas of pain and sail through to the serene shores of realisation.”
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“Vendetta” and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
We discovered this release via MusoSoup, as part of the artist’s promotional campaign.
