Silverwater by Necks, released 5 May 2023.
This version of Silverwater comes as a 1xCD. -
Their first studio CD for three years - named after an industrial suburb in Sydney - famous mainly for it's correctional facility - Silverwater ranges further and wider than The Necks' former releases, exploring a more sectional structure that counterposes extremes and contrasts, and possesses a greater sense of forward motion than we are accustomed to with this most economical of bands - though it still retains the long, hypnotic single-track iterative form for which they have been praised.
So cautious has been the Necks’ development over the past two decades that, like Spinal Tap, their musical growth rate cannot be charted. It&rsq...
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