The Beths - Silence is Golden

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🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

The Beths - Silence is Golden from the 2022 album Expert in a Dying Field on Carpark.

New Zealand indie pop outfit The Beths are on the verge of dropping their highly anticipated third record Expert in a Dying Field on September 16th via Carpark Records. The follow-up to 2020’s Jump Rope Gazers sees the band delve into character sketches of relationships and their aftermaths, with an emphasis on the aftermath.

Our Song of the Day is the single “Silence Is Golden.” Frontwoman Elizabeth Stokes spews lines at a brisk clip, nimbly quipping lines like, "I wish that I could freeze time, go to the wild, soak up the quiet / Till I'm dripping wet with it / Then I would drive home, go to my room, wring myself out / That would be the end of it." According to the band, the song conveys the, "stress and anxiety manifesting as an intolerance to noise, where each new sound makes you more and more stressed.”

With fuzzy guitars and a screeching guitar solo contrasting that message, the song is a roaring and nervy antidote to silence. While silence may be golden, a Beths song gleams just as bright.

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0:00.0	I was there, I could freeze time, go to the wild, took up the quiet till I'm different with it
0:14.0	Then I would drive home, go to my room, bring myself out, that would be the end of it
0:19.0	Instead of quiet going stuffingly loud, it's wearing me down, I'm up to my ears in it
0:24.0	It's like a wave breaking to my head again and again, how you know I'm hearing it
0:29.0	It's sound, it's sound, it's sound, it's sound, it's sound, it's sound, it's sound
0:37.0	I'm in the city to the ground to tell it down
0:50.0	Silence is golden, is golden, it's golden
0:55.0	Suns, it's golden, it's golden, it's golden
1:08.0	Like a broken bird's long, out of the trees into the sky
1:11.0	And he's never seen me off
1:13.0	I'm not a home, I'm strapped in my seat
1:15.0	Into the ride, somebody please let me off
1:18.0	Maybe I'll break this shadow, disperse
1:20.0	That cracks in a glass, never hold a drink again
1:23.0	There's a feedback making it worse, a million hurts
1:26.0	I can hear the ringing
1:28.0	The sun, the sun, the sun, the sun, the sun, the sun, the sun, the sun, the sun, the sun, the sun, the sun, the sun
1:34.0	I've been listening to the ground to turn it down
1:44.0	Suns, it's golden, it's golden, it's golden
1:49.0	Suns, it's golden, it's golden, it's golden
1:54.0	Suns, it's golden, it's golden, it's golden
1:59.0	Suns, it's golden, it's golden
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