Silver Synthetic - Rosalie
“Silver Synthetic jingle jangles its way through the grooviest bits of the 1960s and 1970s, from the Velvet Underground to Television, not forgetting to pay its dues to the swinging psych of The Byrds.” – NME
“New Orleans’ Silver Synthetic music is a sunny earworm, lush with chiming guitars, rich harmonies and signature, tasteful noodling.” – Brooklyn Vegan
Curation proudly presents the cosmic charm of New-Orleans’s Silver Synthetic & their glorious second album ‘Rosalie’. Beachwood Sparks‘ main mover and Curation MD, Brent Rademaker, was delighted when the band shifted over from Third Man: “Honestly this is the album the label have been looking for! We are beyond excited for you to hear it.”
Silver Synthetic turned heads with their debut EP ‘Out Of The Darkness’ – an incendiary opening salvo. They followed it with an eponymous full length LP on Third Man Records that distilled the scope of their sound, turning stage-honed ballads and bar room burners into one of 2021’s most promising debuts. From there, touring, demoing, more touring, they tightened the new tunes with a view to making a ‘classic’ studio album rather than a bedroom demo style debut. They headed into Nashville’s The Bomb Shelter with producer Drew Carroll and then on to Brent’s door.
“I wouldn’t say our first album is pastiche but I think we managed to focus on more things that make us unique this time around.” – Kunal Prakash
Rosalie welcomes you with cosmic west-coast warmth, crossed with The Velvet Underground, Television plus a dash of 90’s Glaswegian-Soul & post-grunge feel. The celebrated Luke Schneider guests with his unique brand of pedal steel on half the songs. Including opener “Age of Infamy” with its carefree swing, effortlessly twisting round the playful guitar-leads, skipping off into Pavement territory. Plenty of moments get the blood pumping and the slower second side shares the spotlight with jazz-adjacent moments and the tender-hearted songwriting of ‘Back Home’. Hometown studio slinger Rex Gregory on sax and flute, joins for the cheeky pop groove & album centre piece “Cool Blue Night”.
Rosalie is Chris Lyons‘ 70 year old neighbour and guardian angel. A beautiful dedication to the power of love, salvation and care. This hooky album comes at you like the younger indie brothers of Brent’s Beachwood Sparks – delivering something as enriching as Rosalie-from-next-door to us all. The surfy closer “Right Time” defies you to not feel hope in these troubled times. This is the right time for Silver Synthetic and Curation Records.