Performance is persuasive
Waking up where you’re not supposed to be
semi-alien platform for collaboration
Moods of surreality ("I can hear the blood in my fingers / nothing tunes out / the world’s too loud")
using her body in tandem with her voice as a weaponized vehicle for the band’s anxiety filled performance
Silvercoat the throng Format:Purple Vinyl LP (ltd 400) Performance is persuasiveNew York electronic experimentalist Nicky Mao's 4th full length, Silvercoat the throng, emerged against the backdrop of lockdown, compelled by an intuitive directive: resist the urge to fill the space. Compositionally this translated as a simmering, shadowy energy, veiled but variable, traced in a composite of strings, synthetics, rhythm, and voice. The title alludes to a poetic notion of possibility, rescued from darkness, which aptly evokes the