Music News - Silicon Announce Debut Album
25 June 2015 - 0 Comments
NEW SINGLE BURNING SUGAR STEAMING HERE
Silicon - the new project ex-The Mint
Chicks frontman, multi-instrumentalist Kody Nielson - will release
its debut album Personal Computer on Friday the 28th
August through Weird World/Universal Music.
To coincide with the announcement, Silicon has
released the latest single from the album in Burning Sugar -
stream the audio visualiser HERE - which follows the acclaimed debut
single God Emoji (watch the video HERE).
Personal Computer is a seductive electronica record that pits
Nielson’s brilliant soul, funk and disco influenced songwriting against a
backdrop of extra-terrestrial noir sonics, calling to mind the varied likes of
Flying Lotus, Panda Bear and Daft Punk in the process, as well as that
of the project of Nielson’s brother Ruban, Unknown Mortal Orchestra,
with whom Kody co-wrote and co-produced the new album Multi-Love and
who was also his former band-mate in cult New Zealand punk group The
Mint Chicks.
A prodigiously talented multi-instrumentalist,
vocalist and producer, who remains resistant to any kind of easy pigeonholing,
Kody Nielson may well have concocted the purest distillation of his hyperactive
musical brain yet, in the shape of Silicon. Created in the small hours when the
energy is strong, Silicon sends out pulses of warped, genuinely
soulful, retro-futuristic electronica that smudges the lines between
human warmth and disembodied voices from the machine.
As much as there are traces of his previous work
to be found in the sounds of Silicon, ultimately this latest incarnation
of Nielson’s genius goes some way to closing the loop on the music he
made before the Mint Chicks came into existence. It’s a return to a
self-contained mode. Cultivating his own distinct brand, Silicon has
been introduced by the svelte machinations of lead single God Emoji where
sumptuous electronics meet magnificently harmonized, vocal confections. The
aesthetic solidifies and expands with Burning Sugar, a Stevie
Wonder like development on the sophisticated funk that Kody explored on
previous solo release Devils, which also signifies the
caramelised centre and beating heart of Personal Computer. Next
cuts like ‘Cellphone’ and ‘Love Peace’ add further layers,
coming across as individualistic, sublime pockets of quietude to bring relief
in times of information overload and perpetual surface noise.
The release of Personal Computer will
be augmented by a series of twenty nine paintings of Kody’s ‘Emoji’ icon which
adorn the artwork, and will subsequently be exhibited in New York and London,
and made available for sale after the album’s release. The Silicon live
experience, which has already manifested itself in the U.K. and Europe, will
not be subscribing to the usual dreary linear path that is the default mode of
the less imaginative.
The age of Silicon is upon us.
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