{"id":842,"date":"2012-05-05T16:44:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T16:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=842"},"modified":"2017-08-08T19:18:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T19:18:52","slug":"silently-down-sad-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/silently-down-sad-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"Silently Down- SAD CD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great hybrid of synthpop and coldwave sounds here on this CD from 1992, very much influenced by the Lively Art bands as well as Depeche Mode.\u00a0\u00a0 Not much out there about this one man band, as this disc was released without a label.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/silentlydown\">Myspace page<\/a> out there, which pegs the project as hailing from both France and Switzerland, but I&#8217;m not sure of the whole story there.\u00a0 Likely a French-born Swiss transplant, if I had to make a guess.<\/p>\n<p>This is pretty much the entire recorded output of Silently Down.\u00a0 Another track, &#8220;Tired\u00a0to Life,&#8221; appears on the fourth volume of <em>L&#8217;Appel De La Muse, <\/em>but I&#8217;ve included it here for you all as well.\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s also a track recorded with Ursula Nun of The Vyllies on Myspace, but since that site still throttles its quality, you&#8217;ll have to listen over there.<\/p>\n<p>Track 2 is my favorite here, but they all tread very similar turf throughout.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/silently-down-sad-cd\/silentlydown\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3187\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3187\" src=\"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/silentlydown-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/silentlydown-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/silentlydown-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/silentlydown.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silently Down- <em>SAD<\/em> CD<br \/>\n1. Days Go By<br \/>\n2. Reflection<br \/>\n3. Alone<br \/>\n4. La-Haut<br \/>\n5. Strange Times<br \/>\n6. Welcome To A Suicide Day<\/p>\n<p>Bonus Track- &#8216;Tired To Life&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>*download link removed* &#8211; Reissue <a href=\"https:\/\/deadwaxrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/sadness-bonus-tracks-dw011\">now available<\/a> via Dead Wax Records!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great hybrid of synthpop and coldwave sounds here on this CD from 1992, very much influenced by the Lively Art bands as well as Depeche Mode.\u00a0\u00a0 Not much out there about this one man band, as this disc was released without a label.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a Myspace page out there, which pegs the project as hailing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34,647,39,54,67,3,255],"tags":[733],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-1990s","category-647","category-coldwave","category-france","category-swiss","category-synth","category-synthpop","tag-silently-down"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","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=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3188,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/3188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}