Silver Dove — No Such Thing As Love For…
No Such Thing As Love For… is a new around two hour release from Liverpool’s Silver Dove. It offers up a blend/ mix of hazy guitar drone/ ambience, walled/ textured noise, and dreamy/ abstract sound making.
For the cover art we have a crude/ inversed cartoon drawing of head on arms figure sitting at a school desk next to a blowing curtain window. This is a self released digital affair. It’s a five track release, with each having runtimes between sixteen and nearing thirty eight minutes.
We open up with “trails in the snow, buried by time “ which starts with a series of cassette tape like knocks 'n' clicks, around this we find a selection of steadily pop & higher end ambient hoover- but just as you staring to get comfy- a thicker line blend of rumbling, knock, and gritty roll kicks in. As the track progresses the detailed yet abstract textural map builds/ develops, with sways of gentle guitar drone and hazed ambient detail.
Next is “i want to be buried in snow” here we find mix of ominous and dense bass ramble, a rattling on taut rope tone, and this collection of distant buffeting/ baying weather textures. With latter on hints of faint harmonic ambience appearing- along with steady fire like crackle appearing. There’s a great sense of both mystery/ slight unease with track, and it rather brought to mind material off Wind keeps even Dust Away the 2007 album by sound artist Tarab.
Track number three is “Blood On The Tracks”- this opens with a mix of a mans voice and piping/ floating organ tones- the voice sounds like it’s recorded from a distant TV, and you can’t really make out what’s been said. By nearing the third minute we’ve dropped into a blend of muffled noise drone, rolling/ semi harmonic ambience, with sudden darts of eerier tone shift/ crunch.
Next is “Last Day” here we open with the mumble voiced of a man saying something about been tired, and a cascading line of hazed guitar pick 'n' twang. All giving a decidedly nostalgic vibe- think a more abstract/ hazy/ beatless take on Boards Of Canda’s guitar based tracks.Underneath the guitar layers, you can make out snippets of heartfelt/kind dialogue and laughter.
Finally we have “xylowave supernova (no more grey skies)”. This open with a very crude & lo-fi blend of rapid rumble, jittering rolling, and buffeting knock- it sounds akin to been shrunk down then dropped inside a cassette player, as tape is been played. As the track progresses we move into blend of hiss/ knocking steel tape rattle and rumble flows- from time to time you can hear either distant swooning forking tones, warbling ambient tone, weird vocal wails, or maybe even dialogue snippets.
No Such Thing As Love For… is yet another masterful release from Silver Dove. Over the five tracks the project once again present their very original/ distinctive mix of ambeint/ noise genres- for an album that managers to intrigue, unease, and ultimately ffascinate. It truly is crying shame this is only in digital form…surly someone has to release a CD or tape version of this release!