Imagine a swirl of metal filings gathering on top of a blank sheet of paper with a magnet underneath and you’ll get a feel for the imagistic first track on Silver City Highway’s single, Everything Is Breaking. This mammoth 7-piece country act channels the windy psych-fugue of an Antarctic aurora.  The band has a rock, psych and country lineage which actually works better than it sounds on paper — especially live. 

The two-track single released early in November makes a crash with a prominent slide guitar, organs and double bass. Guitars echo like a memory with the rest of the band up front for their un-radio friendly five-minute tunes.  The second song; Dear Elizabeth, changes the mood from the isolated image of a red-dirt bordered crossroads, to a heartier sounding ballad, which once again gives way to the thumping universal swirl of reverberating, polished wood. 

Composed of members from Redfish, Sub audible Hum and The Union, Silver City ways always considered a side project, but their touring regime testifies otherwise.  Be on the lookout at the Old Bar for one of the most difficult bands to move around. It’s cosmic.

Dan Moss