From Silence

Church and Palladino started writing together several years ago, when Church moved to New York following a year teaching English in Taiwan and India. "We had a funny dynamicmusically, at first," says Church, who grew up in Winnipeg. "I was listening to things that had elements sonically of what we're doing now — Radiohead's Kid A, that second Sigur Ros album, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Warp Records electronic stuff. But all I had to work with at the time was an acoustic guitar. Meanwhile, Aleksa was recording all these really interesting, odd arrangements on her four-track that would be about a minute long and only have one movement in them, and it sounded more like what I was into than what I was doing."

The additions of drummer Dru Prentiss and electronic musician Nicholas Shelestak has both honed and expanded their sound, as well as their recording technique. Striking a unique balance between darkness and light, their music builds on a foundation of rhythmic electronics and synthesizers, to arrive at a sound almost operatic in scope. Recorded at home in Brooklyn over the course of the past several months, From Silence, explore themes of loss, both personal and universal, "the destruction of nature and the destruction of our own nature."