SILVER MOTH

JO KENDALL

Black Bay BELLA UNION Post-rock-driven super-collective take flight. Asymbol of migration and transformation, the silver moth provides an apt metaphor for the movement and transmutation of seven notable UK musicians – Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite, left-field dance act Elisabeth Elektra, atmospheric gothic stars Evi Vine and Steven Hill, plus Abrasive Trees members Matthew Rochford, Ash Babb and Ben Roberts – into a new group. Headed towards the light, Silver Moth emerges from “the edge of the world”, the Isle Of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, with a debut album named after their waterside studio cocoon, Black Bay. “It’s quite the atmospheric headphones listen.” So far, so dramatic. And the music follows, created with dark ambient, post-rock, folk and psychedelia at its core. It opens with the brooding, ghostly Henry, voiced by…

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