Glasgow-based group Cloth will release new album ‘Pink Silence’ on April 25th.

The band’s spartan minimalism has made them cult favourites, with sibling duo Rachael and Paul Swinton building a unique catalogue.

Working with key label Rock Action, new album ‘Pink Silence’ will be released this Spring. Out on April 25th, the record is rooted in their tight-knit creative partnership, augmented by contributions from Portishead’s Adrian Utley, Owen Pallett, and Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite.

In a note, Cloth comment…

“This idea of pink silence describes the early morning or later in the evening, when you get this sort of strange ethereal light in the sky. It can mean one of two things; something which feels blissfully serene or something charged with a real sense of foreboding. We loved the idea that something so natural, beautiful and all-pervasive could have such an intense duality to it.”

New single ‘Golden’ is out now, a hypnotic piece of drone-heavy indie pop, equal parts experimental and endearingly melodic.

Paul Swinton comments on the new single… 

I remember writing the main chorus guitar hook of this song, Rachael adding a chord accompaniment, and me saying to her ‘this songs needs to sound like Talking Heads!’ I think that plan of action maybe got a bit lost along the way, but it’s still one of the album’s most musically upbeat moments, with a great hi-hat-driven beat in the chorus and a bridge which might be my favourite of any Cloth song.

The song deals with the tough breakdown of a relationship, and the feeling of that loss being so difficult to reconcile with you’d rather have never fallen in love at all. There’s a line in the song, ‘that scar on my wall, where all of those photographs remembered us falling” which came from me staring at my bedroom wall and seeing the faint outlines – the ‘scars’ – of where photos of really meaningful memories used to be stuck on. That seemed to me to be a really powerful image, even though, in a sense, there’s nothing to look at anymore.

Tune in now.

Photo Credit: Sandra Ebert