Nov 06 : "Uncertain" - The Silence Kit (Philly / NJ)

IN PARTS

I can almost tell in advance when an important meeting or job is going to come up. All it takes is for The Silence Kit to announce a live show, and, sure enough, a couple days later, a meeting will be announced for either the night of the concert or early the next morning. Such has been the case over the last couple years.

I first heard The Silence Kit in about 2006, and, for a while, heard them fairly regularly. Then a couple years ago our schedules diverged and I never was free at the same time they did a show.

So I was very happy when, a couple weeks ago, I saw that The Silence Kit was going to be doing a show at Kung Fu Necktie. While I listen to their cd's regularly at home, it's just not the same compared with seeing the band live.

Over these six years I've seen the band go through some personnel changes. These can be difficult transitions for a band. But The Silence Kit has always retained its signature sound, a solid and dark post-punk, steered by the band's creator and mastermind, Pat McCay.

The band came out with several new songs in 2011. A bunch of them are on their new ep "In Parts". Pat gives some background :::

Not sure if I'd mentioned it to you but "In Parts," is actually one of two EPs we released the same day... After TJ (guitar) left the band in 2009, we decided to go on at the time without replacing him. We had our keyboard player James cover on guitar and he switched back and forth from keys to guitar as needed. We recorded our practices and for a good bit of it we just jammed, coming up with things on the fly, based on some guitar parts I'd written. After the other guys left one night I scribbled down some lyrics that came to me on the spot, recorded vocals to two of these jams, and kind of forgot about them. These songs wound up being 'I Can Tell' and 'Uncertain' from the "In Parts" EP.

And here, right here on my blog page, is the band's song, "Uncertain":::

The band has another show coming up on November 23 at The Fire.

To visit The Silence Kit on Bandcamp in the meantime, here is the click ::: The Silence Kit (CLICK HERE)