I was recently asked by a musician why I think their music hasn’t yet gone more “viral.” This musician wasn’t looking for the type of viral that the kids are always talking about; millions of YouTube hits and guest appearances on all the morning cable news shows. But he said that people told him at shows that they “really liked” the music and he initially saw this as something that should spiral his band’s career into at least a thousand Spotify spins or a degree of accomplishment parallel to such a level. My final answer to said musician was to impress yourself and not your friends. I had also pointed out to him the largess of the world and how pretty much anyone with a few bucks and an instrument (however this last part is negotiable) could get a Bandcamp page and add to the already overpopulated sea of music, good and bad, that is already being made for immediate consumption or just to make oneself feel better.
One of the many fish in the big pond are the Kenosha, Wisconsin, art-rock quartet Sun Silo featuring the players: Andy Warren Jepson on guitar and vocals, Alyssia Wakefield on bass and vocals, Kimberly Hetelle on keyboards and vocals, and drummer Maxwell Melendrez. Their debut is a three-song EP wittily titled Three by Four, which has a bit of an old school live take recording quality to it and definitely has a mellow vibe in the jazzy translucent melancholy of bands like Velvet Underground and The Clientele. The opening track“The Story of a Young Crook” is a musically a slow-mo jazzy jam session that builds into a psych pop sort of experiment. The keys which creep in the background add a lot to the psychedelic element and as it progresses the song turns into a practice jam session, albeit which is for all intents and purposes pleasurable enough but nothing out of the ordinary that would make one think something new and exciting was being done. The second song has a bit more fervor behind it yet the falsetto and basic drudgery of Jepson’s lyrics put me off from the song a bit. The final song here, “Box Blonde” is the shining star on this little EP and the way that I think the band should take if it’s going to continue. They sound most whole here and the long drawn out, jammed out melodies and prominence not being placed on lyricism or vocals, really made me think this is a band worth picking out of the pile.
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