Silicone Soul--Save Our Souls

One year after the Staring Into Space album, Craig Morrison and Graeme Reedie are back with Save Our Souls, a haunting compilation of dark melodies and slowly enchanting rhythms. Save Our Souls is most simply defined as a techno album, but feels much more deep than just a pool of heavy beats and shiny effects that might make you dance like a freak with bright lights flashing. Silicone Soul crafts a 14-track album that rolls as one looming movement, shifting from an omnipresent shadow in "Fading" right into upbeat ambiance in "Dreaming Again." This album, while subtly quiet, goes way beyond background music. It holds a depth that feels held back and constrained, primed and ready to leap out and sweep the listener away. Yet Morrison and Reedie hold it back the whole way, and keep your ear prisoner as a result. This is an album of dreams – as corny as it sounds – close your eyes while listening to "Bad Machines" or "Fearmakers" and let your mind wander and explore the in’s and out’s of the landscapes that Silicone Soul create. Save Our Souls is too subtle for the dance floor, too elongated for the pop arena, but the intricate melodies and haunting vocals on "As the Stars Became the Sun" are perfect for anyone looking to clear their head and drift into a different world. When the weather becomes gloomy and a restless night is cowering above your head, let Silicone Soul’s hidden yet ever-present melodies drift over you.

(Published at MusicEmissions.com)