Silence Is Easy (20th Anniversary Edition) (Turquise Vinyl) (Limited)
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- Music Was Saved
- Fidelity
- Some Of Us
- Silence Is Easy
- Telling Them
- Shark Food
LPB
- Bring My Love
- White Dove
- Four To The Floor
- Born Again
- Restless Heart
Silence Is Easy is the second studio album by English indie rock group Starsailor, released in September 2003 on EMI Records. The album cover is loosely based on Echo & the Bunnymen's Heaven Up Here. The song "Some of Us" was featured in an episode of Bones titled "A Boy in a Bush" and in the closing credits of the Belgian film The Memory of a Killer (a.k.a. The Alzheimer Case). In the first week of the album’s release, it sold 54,296 copies, charting at No. 2 on the UK Albums chart.
For the 20th anniversary, the album will be released as a 2CD deluxe edition, featuring the original album and a bonus disc full of unreleased demos, mixes, live performances. The original album will also be pressed on vinyl for the first time since 2003, available as a limited edition turquoise blue vinyl.
Starsailor’s second album Silence Is Easy was originally released in September 2003 after the whirlwind success of their debut album Love Is Here a mere 2 years earlier.
As Walsh explains “...they say you have years to write your debut album and the blink of an eye to make the follow up. Whilst that’s true of ‘Silence Is Easy’ we certainly packed a lot into the period between albums & our lives changed immeasurably giving us a lot of experience to go into it. Not least the sometimes challenging,often exciting recording of the album itself…”
Its creation saw the band cross brief production paths with the legendary Phil Spector, his last production before his well publicized exit from public life. The perhaps uneasy alliance did however gift the album the masterful Silence Is Easy and stunningly beautiful White Dove.
Walsh continues “...It was amazing to follow in the footsteps of The Beatles & countless others recordings at Abbey Road. Initially it was an honour to work with the producer Phil Spector but subsequent events have put a dark cloud around that and make it a tricky subject to dwell on too much…”
The band co-produced seven of the remaining eight tracks with Elbow, Coldplay and Doves producer, Danton Supple. John Leckie (The Stone Roses & Radiohead) produced Shark Food to complete. Silence Is Easy reached Number Two in the UK on release.
The third single from the album, Four to the Floor, was also remixed by Thin White Duke (Stuart Price), and became a massive club hit across UK and Europe, reaching Number One in France.
Walsh explains “...whilst the title track ‘Silence Is Easy’ gave us our second top ten single and highest charting (No.9) it was ‘Four To The Floor’ that really changed our lives. The original track was well received around the world but it was Stuart Price’s legendary remix that took it to another level. No1 in France,Top 5 in Australia & Belgium culminating in an appearance at the Stade de France supporting U2 whilst the song was still flying high in the charts…”