{"id":5359,"date":"2024-02-14T15:52:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=5359"},"modified":"2024-02-14T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T16:10:07","slug":"the-silence-cries-silent-eyes-lp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-silence-cries-silent-eyes-lp\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silence Cries – Silent Eyes LP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Hallmark Day, y’all! Better late than never with a new post. Here’s the debut album from Swiss post-punk\/new wave band The Silence Cries, released in 1987. This three piece band reminds me quite a bit of Mecano, Sv\u00e4tsox, Razor Penguins, early Modern English, and other rickety, yet powerful post-punk bands from the early\/mid 80s. There’s also quite a bit of sax, trumpet, and accordion throughout the LP, which adds a nice bit of tension. It’s quite an eclectic album – there’s a lot of variation and dynamic range across the album, and the band occasionally flirts with jangle pop, NDW, and more experimental shades, but still retains that gloomy post-punk sound I love so dearly.<\/p>\n

The Silence Cries has a rather modest discography,\u00a0 three albums and two singles, all of which were released on the Winterschatten label<\/a>. I couldn’t say how their sound evolved on their second and third album, but I’d be curious to find out one of these days. As always, feel free to drop a line if you have any of their other releases, and perhaps you’ll find the band’s first 7” single here soon enough.<\/p>\n

Until then…<\/p>\n

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The Silence Cries – Silent Eyes
\n<\/em>1. Change
\n2. Emotions
\n3. Grieni Auge
\n4. Fische Nur
\n5. Silent Eyes
\n6. Violence Is Growing
\n7. Why Should I Dance
\n8. Slow Death
\n9. In My Brain
\n10. Another Beer
\n11. Frontiers
\n12. Killed By Unfeeling<\/p>\n

*download it here<\/a>*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Hallmark Day, y’all! Better late than never with a new post. Here’s the debut album from Swiss post-punk\/new wave band The Silence Cries, released in 1987. This three piece band reminds me quite a bit of Mecano, Sv\u00e4tsox, Razor Penguins, early Modern English, and other rickety, yet powerful post-punk bands from the early\/mid 80s. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,130,183,19,67,651,973],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-130","category-new-wave","category-post-punk","category-swiss","category-switzerland","category-the-silence-cries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5364,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions\/5364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}