Tag: 2010

“Silvery attracted attention attheir early London gigs with ashow that included Victorian uni-forms and bubble machines. It’s not hard to see how entertaining they must have been but ‘Railway Architecture’ does,at times, resemble a soundtrack for some kind of art happening that we’re never going to see. The helterskelter whimsy of ‘A Deconstruction Of Roles’ is undeniably fun, but it’s a bit forgettable and the arch musichall of ‘An Account Of The Raising Of A Spirit’ isn’t asrevolutionary as they’d like to think. There’s nothingwrong with a bit of drama, but this album does have the whiff of an end of term drama school project.”

“It’s perhaps odd that a band who wear their influences so flagrantly on their sleeve should create possibly one of the most distinctive sounds you’re currently likely to hear. And on the continued evidence of this, the band’s second album, it’s also one of the most irrepressible and exhilarating. Certainly, Railway Architecture heralds no radical change of musical direction from their 2008 debut, Thunderer and Excelsior, but instead offers more a consolidation and development of their characteristically off-kilter stock in trade.

“You won’t find Silvery posing in a graveyard, wearing black leather and pretending to be Lou Reed’s

“Genius twisted pop.”

“Rest easy, people of England, your football team may be firing blanks but your purveyors of offbeat pop are still diligently toiling away at the coalface of eccentric tuneage. Silvery have immersed themselves in the canon of English space-rock, producing compositions that cut across Two-Tone, Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd and XTC before they went all Sergeant Pepper. �A Deconstruction Of Roles� is under-pinned by a Specials rhythm and horns, �The Nod� is pantomime chicanery whose only fault is that it compares unfavourably with similar �cor blimey missus� pop efforts, but the trick is carried off better on �Sparks And Fire�. �An Account Of The Raising Of A Spirit� is a vaudevillian

“As frenetic as their first album, Silvery’s second outing has much in common with their debut, even reprising the single’The Devil In The Detail’ at the album’s close. The lively ‘Deconstruction Of Roles’ is a rousing opener, and ‘Two Halves Of The Same Boy1 is big and boisterous, but too many of the tracks follow Silvery’s bouncy tempo, Big Top licks and brash chorus formula to make for truly gripping listening.”