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” data-original-title title>Slowly Rolling Camera‘s self-titled debut (Edition, 2014) to Silver Shadow feels like hearing two different bands entirely. Granted, just about any outfit might sound completely changed after switching from vocal songs to all-instrumental pieces. Besides that obvious shift in tone, though, this trio’s electro-jazz-hop fusion has also come a long wayand yet to those who might have followed them all along, the path leading from that point to this has been a series of perfectly understandable turns. You can hear a throughline of vivid and patient moods all along, while each album stakes out its own niche and their knack for soundscaping continues to evolve.
The cinematic feel is of course central to this sound (the clue is in the name), and so with those distinct identities, their recordings can easily feel like chapters in one long soundtrack. However picturesque the group sounded with the quietly intense R&B of the early albums with singer
” data-original-title title>Dionne Bennett, their expansive movies-for-the-mind approach has always worked best without words. Electric jazz continued swirling with vaguely trippy electronica on a couple more dynamic outings, followed by their first genuine film soundtrack with 2023’s Flow (Edition) showing the trio at their most organic and, well, fluid. To mark their tenth anniversary, Silver Shadow figuratively brings us to their silver screennot the glitzy kind, but the realm of late-night noir where everything feels like a dream.