But You've Always Been the Caretaker

INSOUND EXCLUSIVE IN THE U.S.! A double CD in a gatefold digipak, with the first CD containing the album and the second featuring remixes, covers, rarities and instrumentals!

This is The Silent League's third record, titled But You've Always Been the Caretaker. This time with the idiosyncratic producer, and band-member, Shannon Fields at the helm (founder and producer of the unclassifiable Brooklyn collective Stars Like Fleas, and whose musical credits include Helado Negro, Miho Hatori, Doveman, and many projects that ignore rock and pop altogether), the band spent time at various upstate farmhouse studios with recording and mixing engineer D. James Goodwin (Scary Mansion, The Bravery) crafting a somewhat different record. More explicit is the group's affection for the softrock and artrock power ballads of the 70s (the group initially bonded over a common love of ELO, Todd Rundgren, Roxy Music and Bread), but the moodier and more unhinged qualities that have always been subtexts in the band's music have been pushed forward. It is an evocative, jarring, sometimes disturbing and densely woven record that seems nearly to ignore contemporary indie rock but which sounds very little like its antecedents or any obvious contemporary reference points. Rather than chasing the endlessly tiresome "reinvention of rock," The Silent League, with one foot in sterling songcraft and the other in the Brooklyn diaspora, has sculpted stunningly fresh new music with the decapitated pieces of rock's MOR family tree.