She Talks Silence Preps New Album Some Small Gifts

ByPatrick St. Michel

About one year ago, the mysterious lo-fi artist She Talks Silence released her debut album Noise & Novels, a monochromatic sonic snapshot of solitude that ended up being our favorite record of 2010. Needless to say, we now wait anxiously giddy like kids on December 20 for the arrival of her follow-up, the six-track Some Small Gifts. This album features the previously heard “Dead Romance,” which last year was a special release but now finds a permanent home amongst five never-heard-before tracks. Listen to “Dead Romance” here.

1. Not Hearing
2. Bedflower
3. Vanished Vacances
4. Dead Romance
5. Fragment
6. Some Small Gift

It’s out on the 29th of June, preorder at Jet Set.

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