Songs of Silence, by Vince Clarke

Songs of Silence

by Vince Clarke

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Luis Rozalen Guzman A dystopian sound voyage into the depths of the soul. Absolute bliss for the ears and the mind. Enjoyed every single second. Thanks maestro!

Dan Leithauser Found myself listening to Songs of Silence over and over. In the background or with critical listening, this album is emblematic of Clark's skillset beyond DM works. Favorite track: The Lamentations of Jeremiah.

fetalface At last, a solo album by my favorite artist of all time. Let's hope for many more. Transported instantly from the first note, transfixed until the last, can't stop listening to this record. Thanks, Vince, you are an absolute gem. Favorite track: Blackleg.

thomasleiser what a great debut album! Favorite track: Red Planet.

seven seven zero going full dead can dance...a darker-introspective side of mr. clarke?

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1.	Cathedral 04:21	buy track
2.	White Rabbit 04:40	buy track
3.	Passage 03:10	buy track
4.	Imminent 04:56	buy track
5.	Red Planet 04:40	buy track
6.	The Lamentations of Jeremiah 04:23	buy track
7.	Mitosis 04:51	buy track
8.	Blackleg 03:06	buy track
9.	Scarper 03:47	buy track
10.	Last Transmission 04:46	buy track

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As the album title suggests, Songs of Silence is a lyricless, instrumental album, and is hugely evocative for that. Unlike anything you’ve previously heard from Vince Clarke as an artisan of dynamic electropop, Songs of Silence has about it a more sober ambient electronic beauty, its unique characteristics put it in a category of its own.

For the creation of the record Vince set himself two rules – first that the sounds he himself generated for the album would come solely from Eurorack (a modular synthesizer format introduced in the mid-90s) and secondly that each track would be based around one note, maintaining a single key throughout. The resultant pieces, with the Eurorack sound clay then manipulated on Logic Pro, amount to wordless narratives, in which a sense of synthgenerated, cosmic remoteness is often jolted by stark interventions, reminders of the human hand at work amid this machinery.

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released November 17, 2023

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Vince Clarke New York, New York

Vince Clarke is the primary composer and musician in Erasure, and previous songwriter and member of Yazoo, Depeche Mode, and The Assembly.

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