Silvercoat the Throng

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New York electronic experimentalist Nicky Mao’s fourth full-length, ‘Silvercoat the Throng’, emerged against the backdrop of lockdown, compelled by an intuitive directive: ‘resist the urge to fill the space.’ Compositionally this translated as a simmering, shadowy energy, veiled but variable, traced in a composite of strings, synthetics, rhythm, and voice. The title alludes to a poetic notion of ‘possibility, rescued from darkness,’ which aptly evokes the shape-shifting, devotional feel of these ambitious and elegant sound designs, crafted in defiance of impermanence, driven by the pursuit of becoming ‘more and more articulated, differentiated.’

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