Silk Flowers at The Sculpture Center
Last weekend, moody analogue dance dudes Silk Flowers played at the awesome Sculpture Center in Queens (in conjunction with the University of Trash). It was satisfyingly cognitively dissonant watching them perform such dark and rackety tracks outside under the hot sun to a crowd of beer-drinking satisfieds chilling in giant hammocks and standing on rocks spraypainted the blinding neon of tennis balls. Silk Flowers are not super depressed or anything, though, just extra creative and cool, as we discovered when we linked up with them before their show and talked to them about meat, elf kings and making their their new album in a sealed chamber in the middle of winter.
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posted on Aug 5, 2009 in FADER TV, FADER TV MUSIC CHANNEL SPOTLIGHT, FADER TV Spotlight, MUSIC CHANNEL, MUSIC INTERVIEWS SHOW tags FADER TV, Silk Flowers
Freeload: Silk Flowers, “Flash of Light” MP3
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One of us has a Sisters of Mercy Vision Thing tattoo. Actually, she didn’t get it because of that, she got it because she was an 18-year-old nerd and wanted to be an Egyptologist and the udjat is a protective symbol of Horus, but also she listened to Sisters of Mercy a lot back then anyway so it’s all the same ball of nerd. When we listen to Silk Flowers, a dark-minded new New York synth band, we think about First and Last and Always because their singer has that same throaty eternal deity deepness that inspired the ancient Egyptian gods business in the first place. We are going to skulk around to this synthy death-track and shoot dirty looks at the sky.
Download: Silk Flowers, “Flash of Light”
