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Silkworm - Italian Platinum [New Vinyl LP] Colored Vinyl, Red

Artist: Silkworm

Title: Italian Platinum

Format: Vinyl LP

Genre: Rock

UPC: 036172092932

Release Date: 2019

Record Label: Touch & Go Records

Album Tracks

1. (I Hope U) Don't Survive
2. The Old You
3. Is She a Sign
4. The Brain
5. Bourbon Beard
6. LR72
7. The Third
8. White Lightning
9. Dirty Air
10. Young
11. Moving
12. The Ram
13. A Cockfight of Feelings

A notoriously self-reliant band, Silkworm swelled it's ranks considerably on Italian Platinum (originally released in 2002). Kelly Hogan (solo, The Pine Valley Cosmonauts) contributed backing vocals on several tracks and sang the hell out of "Young," an outsized ballad that has no precise equivalent in the band's catalog. And Matt Kadane (Bedhead, The New Year) became the band's quasi-official keyboardist, troubling the waters with an organ bed here, a glowing piano line there, a greasy clavinet solo on "White Lightning." Still, Cohen, Midgett, and drummer Michael Dahlquist (who did get to sing now and then) remained at the core of Italian Platinum. You can hear their damn-everything confidence as individual musicians in the drum fills that stagger through "Bourbon Beard," the Neil-Young-meets-Andy-Gill guitar solo that plays havoc with the chords of "(I Hope U) Don't Survive," or the polluted, swaggering baritone guitar on "Dirty Air." With each record, Silkworm were committed to pushing harder against what they knew they could do. Symbiosis defined this band, and you're better off hearing for yourself.