Listen: The Silver State - "The Colorado"

29 July 2014, 09:45 | Written by Jon Putnam

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(The Silver State)

It’s tempting to think of nature’s most beautiful and majestic features as silently awe-inspiring, creations of untouched perfection, perhaps if not accompanied by nothing, maybe backed by some lone angelic chorus. Truth is, these monuments took centuries of hardship to conceive – wind, earthquakes, floods, among others – and they’re imperfect, jagged, precarious.

Neither by their name nor their latest single, much less from their sound, would you expect The Silver State to hail from Brooklyn. That said, the original trio cut their teeth in Las Vegas, Nevada – The Silver State – hence the slow-burning, wide-eyed ambience sliced with fuzzed-out, raggedly splendiferous guitar workouts.

“The Colorado” virtually paints a fable of the creation of the eponymously named river: a female, Paul Bunyan-esque character lumbering across the craggy American west, carving out the winding, mighty waterway. The Silver State boys stop long enough to gawk at the beauty before sending up a pair of gloriously serrated six-string homages to their rugged surroundings.

The Silver State’s sophomore LP Outside is out on 12 August via Tacky Records.