Name: Songs of Silence
Brand: Vince Clarke

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

STUMM500

Colour

Black

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2023-11-17

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

WEA /­ ADA

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5400863142049

Total Cap

Black LP

CDSTUMM500

5400863142056

Artist

Vince Clarke

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Mute

Vince Clarke presents, unbelievably, his first ever solo album,&nbsp;<i>Songs of Silence</i>. As the album title suggests,&nbsp;<i>Songs of Silence</i>&nbsp;is a lyric-less, instrumental album, and is hugely evocative for that. Unlike anything you’ve previously heard from Vince Clarke, as an artisan of dynamic electropop, (Erasure, Depeche Mode, Yazoo), Songs of Silence has about it a more sober ambient electronic beauty, its unique characteristics put it in a category of its own. For the creation of the record Vince set himself two rules – first that the sounds he himself generated for the album would come solely from Eurorack (a modular synthesizer format introduced in the mid-90s) and secondly that each track would be based around one note, maintaining a single key throughout. The resultant pieces, with the Eurorack sound clay then manipulated on Logic Pro, amount to wordless narratives, in which a sense of synth-generated, cosmic remoteness is often jolted by stark interventions, reminders of the human hand at work amid this machinery. This album sees Vince Clarke not content to rest on his considerable pop legacy, and instead open up for himself, and for the rest of us, exciting new electronic vistas in which the permutations and possibilities are limitless.

Songs of Silence

Music US

Discover Songs of Silence by Vince Clarke. His first solo album is a lyric-less, instrumental masterpiece, showcasing his unique ambient electronic beauty. Available in various formats from Mute Records.