Silver Dove — Forced

Forced is a just under thirty-minute example of galloping- yet-detailed walled noise from Liverpool’s Silver Dove.  The ‘wall’ has a nice feeling of cluttering looseness, but (just) maintains its structure and appealing-yet-chaotic flow.

The digital release is a self-released affair. For cover artwork we get a contrast-heavy blend of yellow and red colourings- with what looks like a picket fence towards the top of the illustration- though really it’s all very abstract/ unclear exactly what it’s of. The release can be found here. 

The Silver Dove project started in 2021- and at one point, over a two-year period- it was putting out new work every week- so as you can imagine there’s a fair amount of material on their Bandcamp site. As far as I recall- Forced is my first taster of Silver Dove's work, and I must say it’s a nicely chaotic- yet rewardingly detailed ride.

The single self-titled track comes in at the 26.29 mark.  The ‘wall’ is built around a roughshod mix of constantly galloping lows ‘n’ mids, a rushing static liquid-like flow, and a selection of cascading subtone rattle 'n' clatter. Ever so often you make sudden off-pattern textures-   such as cold-like snaps ‘n’ knocks, gritty drags, and possible distant warbling tones.  The main textural elements are fairly rewardingly organic in their tone, with the off-pattern elements adding a sense of mystery to the whole thing.

All in all, Forced is an engaging shorter ‘wall’ that I’ve found myself revisiting more than a few times. And I’ll most certainly dig futher into the project's huge Bandcamp back catalogue.