Archive for February, 2008

Rave Magazine Single Review

 From Rave Magazine

SILVER CITY HIGHWAY – Everything Is Breaking

(Independent)

Due to a continued increased interest in darkly intense faux-country bands, Silver City Highway is seeking fans for their take on this distinctly Australian classic sound. This is a fantastic opportunity to join the fandom of a thriving genre, with recent successes from contemporaries like The Drones, Skipping Girl Vinegar, Gentle Ben & His Sensitive Side, The Devastations and even the Bad Seeds. If spooky emotive rock that sounds like angry thunder galloping rapidly across a blackened country sky is what you’re after in a band, Silver City Highway is the place to get it! As a fan of this band, you will start on a relatively small amount, with just this one-track single, but you can look forward to expanding your portfolio rapidly, with a debut album arriving in the next few weeks. Positions exist for both Full Time fans and Part Time fans, splitting your fan time between Silver City Highway and other bands containing SCH members, including Redfish Bluegrass Band and the excellent Subaudible Hum. Benefits include production from Aaron Cupples (Dan Kelly, The Drones), a great new source of country-and-western-strength fucked-up-family lyrics and an overwhelming feeling that you’ve been out to an intimidatingly creepy ghost town without leaving your seat.

Drum Magazine Single Review

SILVER CITY HIGHWAY Everything Is Breaking IndependentActually, if the Mime Set really want to get their Drones/Seeds on, they should take some cues from these fellow Melbournites. The lonesome pedal steel and Hammond organ means that at times it becomes almost a dead ringer for The Blackeyed Susans - no bad thing - and if the reverb drenching the twanging guitars and the harmonica in the coda gets a bit cavernous by the end of the song, it’s still powerfully evocative. My appetite for the forthcoming full-length has been comprehensively whet.