“Silence” is the third album by Polar for the Masses, and it is definitely one that will make you search out the band’s first two releases. The Italian trio plays grooving post punk with very sexy, accented singing. The excellent opener, “consequences,” features a simple bass line and drums backed by a shaker. Oscillating guitar noise provides a post-punk background to harmonic singing in heavily accented English. The riffs and rhythms are generally very simple but all the more catchy. Songs like “rust” and “dismembered” are immediate favorites, while “sailing away” begins as a dark, atmospheric number that erupts from minimalist reduction into a repetitive groove. You really cannot single out one song among the album’s eight tracks, as Polar for the Masses sweep you along with singalong dance punk that is in parts reminiscent of Liars’ first album, “They Threw Us All In A Trench …,” or Chinese Stars.

by artistxite