Silent Forum’s Welsh Music Prize-nominated debut album Everything Solved At Once (2019) was a truly introspective affair, with lyricist Richard Wiggins dead set on examining the internal workings of a 21st Century pop band. “Just Another Pop Act” picks up where the album left off, with Wiggins explaining ‘Silent Forum are possibly the most self-referential band on Earth and “Just Another Pop Act” pushes that to breaking point, referencing two former songs by the band and the title of the book Pop Hack by the organiser of this compilation Kevin McGrath. Not that you need to know any of that. Usually the band jam out each of their songs as a four piece, sharing the entire writing process. This song, however, saw Dario (guitar) send an instrumental track for Richard (vocals) to sing over, and we went from there ending with Charlie (production) amping the track up x1000. It’s an experiment – hope you enjoy.’
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Although I do agree I'd prefer more focus on the IRS era, this is a really solid collection of covers that delivers some unique takes. Totally inspired me to go back and listen to the original albums as well. Jean-Paul DuQuette
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The greatest to ever do it, do it again! Sometimes lush as a warm blanket, sometimes all the angles of a dance party, always suspended in and out of time _hopskipjump
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