Simone White - Silver Silver

Silver Silver is LA-based singer-songwriter Simone White’s most affecting and ambitious album yet. In contrast to her folk/country-tinged 2007 debut, I Am The Man, and 2009's quiet offering, Yakiimo, 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. Silver Silver was a year in the making, and White worked with Samuel Bing and Julian Wass of Fol Chen at their L.A. studio. The record features guest spots from Andrew Bird, Thao, and Victoria Williams (all musician friends White met through touring), and for the first time mixes songs with instrumental segues and textures — including a manipulated field recording of neighbourhood street sounds. (Listen hard and you might hear an ice cream truck.) ‘There's space th Style: Singer/ Songwriter