The Silent Years are in the spirit of gift giving during this holiday season. Their self titled debut can be downloaded for free: http://www.mediafire.com/?8mnmzy4mbig According to an update from the band, The Silent Years are preparing their follow-up to their debut album that was released early in 2007. The Silent Years are currently holed up in a studio from 5 pm until 7 am daily mixing their new album, The Globe with Chris Coady (TV on the Radio, Grizzly Bear, Blonde Redhead). Giving away their debut full-length allows them to build hype for the album in the making, allowing them to reach listeners that missed them the first time around. Doing so increases the demand for more music theoretically. A note from The Silent Years concerning The Globe: We were watching the film Powers of 10, which they used to show in middle school science classes. In the film, the camera starts out, framed on a couple having a picnic. Every 10 seconds, the field of view expands by a power of ten the picnic becomes Chicago, Chicago becomes North America, and soon you re seeing the Earth in the context of its solar system. This got us thinking about the similarities between mankind and all other components of the universe. An atom is to a cell, as a cell is to a man, as man is to the Earth, as the Earth is to the universe, etc The Globe is a collection of songs which reflect on humanity and the human experience through varying tales which shift focus from the minute to the abstract and gradually expands to the universal. The Globe was chosen as the title since it serves as a very perfect symbol of scale being an integral part of our definitions of self and reality. From suburbia Detroit, the six members of The Silent Years are consistently performing. They have toured the US three times, and have garnered the needed attention to launch their enterprise. Spin Magazine named them Underground Artist of 2007, and Pitchfork gave the album a 7.3 rating. The Silent Years - Someone To Keep Us Warm (more ) Tags: Blonde Redhead, Chris Coady, Grizzly Bear, Pitchfork, Spin, The Silent Years
