TORONTO, Canada (Top40 Charts/ Fire Records) - Toronto-based experimental folk trio The Silt are set to release their proper debut for Fire Records on January 12, 2009.
After two lo-fi outings on their own label, 'Cat's Peak' is a true meeting of pop and experimentalism, replete with sublime harmonies, and words of nature's magic and love's mysteries delivered with the band's characteristic avant-country sensibility.
A veritable super group of Toronto's young, improvised music community, the band is regarded as the brainchild of singer/guitarist/flautist Ryan Driver, whose solo album 'Feeler Of Pure Joy' - recorded with Sando Perri of Constellation Records - will also be released by Fire in early 2009. The Oldham-esque broken-folk of 'No Twig' is available for download below.
What the press is saying about 'Cat's Peak':
'Imagine, instead, the kind of low-fidelity, ramshackle blue-eyed soul last heard pimped by Beastie Boys' Fender Rhodes tickler, Money Mark, on his Keyboard Repair album and you're nearly there. Loungey albeit longing, this is down-tempo shorn of coffee table schtick and stuffed with soul' - The Times (UK)
'The Silt... fuse their collective backgrounds in a range of esoteric genres - classical, Renaissance, medieval and, most notably, improvisational music - into an exhilarating, spontaneous cacophony of roots-aligned, occasionally skronky sounds that spiral out from deceptively simple pop-style frameworks.' - Now Magazine
'A grand mix of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and a subdued Magnolia Electric Co., with just enough awkward singing and weird chord combinations to keep things interesting, this album is, simply, a pure delight.' - Exclaim Magazine
Tracklisting for 'Cat's Peak':
1 Come Back To The Willow
2 No Twig (MP3)
3 Feathershine
4 Cat's Peak
5 Sunlit Cloud
6 Two Eyes
7 Taking A Walk
8 Cocoon
9 Beautiful Shell
10 Twilight In The Morning
11 Lit
12 Ears To The Rail
13 An Hour
