Simone White - Sillver, Silver (LP)

Silver Silver is LA-based singer-songwriter Simone White's most affecting and ambitious album yet. Silver Silver has White's soft voice framed by complex arrangements: there are pulsing, speaker-rattling bass tones, delicately layered vocal harmonies, and exquisitely lush washes of sound. It is also the singer's most personal record to date: 'A lot of stuff happened during the production. Two deaths, a breakup� fell in love.'The record features guest spots from Andrew Bird, Thao, and Victoria Williams and for the first time mixes songs with instrumental segues and textures � including a manipulated field recording of neighbourhood street sounds. 'There's space throughout, and time away from the words. It's what I like to hear in music now, less words, and a little time to consider what you're listening to.'