Artist: Silos
Column from web archive October 1, 2008
I’m Not Jim: The novel approach of Jonathan Lethem and Walter Salas-Humara
In the eternal tilt of singer vs. song, who wins these days? I judge it a TKO for the singer. Credit (or blame) Bob Dylan’s destruction of the Brill Building’s non-confessional song factory. In its place sprouted music freighted with an assumption that the song is an intercom wired to the songwriter’s brain, that the [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #68 Mar-Apr 2007
Silos – Come On Like The Fast Lane
Is it ideologically correct to channel both Neil Young and his arch southern foes Lynyrd Skynyrd on the same album? The Silos, who have in their rejuvenated post-alt-country mode evinced the ragged power of Crazy Horse, provide an immediate answer on their new album by opening with a humping rocker straight out of classic Skynyrd [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #53 Sept-Oct 2004
Silos – When the Telephone Rings
The Silos’ latest excursion of musical wanderlust travels the road not taken. Since the band’s critical breakthrough with 1987′s Cuba, frontman Walter Salas-Humara and an ever-shifting lineup have pursued a number of directions, detours and tangents: from punk rock to art rock, from ambient textures to power trio. With Salas-Humara’s elliptical material and laconic vocals, [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #42 Nov-Dec 2002
Silos – Cuba
In mid-September of 2001, about a week after that fateful day, I drove a couple hours north to Richmond, Virginia, having heard that Bob Rupe was planning to sit in for a few songs with the Silos at Poe’s Pub. This was a rare occasion; Rupe and Silos leader Walter Salas-Humara hadn’t played together for [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #17 Sept-Oct 1998
Silos – Back in the New York groove
A couple years ago MTV announced it was going to give more exposure to the electronica scene. In step, the major labels acted accordingly; suddenly the pop music landscape was awash with artists like the Chemical Brothers, the bitch-smackin’ Prodigy and a whole vat of guys named DJ Somethingoranother. While the initial impact was not [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #13 Jan-Feb 1998
Silos – Long Green Boat
The arrival of a new Silos collection containing live cuts, alternate versions, and should-have-been hits on a French label begs the question: Does the world need such a Silos collection right now? Perhaps they do in France, but when The Silos signed with Watermelon a few years back, the first order of business was getting [...]
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