RTR FM Album Review

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Silver City Highway - Everything is Breaking

Author

Simone Ruggiero

Published

Tuesday 8th April

Hitch a ride down the ‘Silver City Highway’ with this seven piece outfit and your bound for a beautifully atmospheric journey. ‘Everything is Breaking’ takes you to destinations where blues, country and rock combine to create a conceptually connected album. With a band backed with established musicians and one that was recorded by Aaron Cupples who has worked alongside The Drones and Dan Kelly, this CD is inundated with success.

The album is widely theatrical providing powerful vocals and an intense instrumental score. Front man, Fergus McAlpin delivers soothing and sometimes narcotic sounding vocals, in moments reflecting the earlier work of Nick Cave. McAlpin honours Cave with deep and engaging vocals often bordering on spoken words. The title track of the album delivers a dreamlike vibe and sets the standard for the rest of the CD. You are taken on a ride with Silver City Highway and only released after the completion of nine songs. Who knew that country music could sound so haunting, but with a track like ‘Dear Elizabeth’, Silver City Highway prove that their much more than any other Australian rock/country outfit. The eeriness of the album is largely due to the harmonica and pedal which feature heavily in all tracks and in turn have enormous impact over the overall sound.

With a Melbourne soul, Silver City Highway have collaborated a superb collection of songs for their new CD. Entering into a blend of country, blues and rock genres the album achieves a very pleasing symphony of sound. Join the boys from Silver City Highway and hop on the band wagon.