Establishing the mood with a super cerebral and industrial soundscape, Silver Dawn opens I Don’t Know What I Don’t Know with a vocalization of the title of the track featuring subversive vocal design. The opus expands with a distorted, hyper-pop-meet-8-bit sound design to take us on a super trippy and almost psychedelic journey.
We appreciate the glitched energy and the dynamism. What surprises us is a tempo shift into a slower energy with ethereal harmonies and a more serene, euphoric energy juxtaposed against the metallic wider production. Naturally, the track switches up the tempo once more to dial into a more visceral space before the close.
Fans of SOPHIE and Charli xcx‘s brat would be able to connect with the experimental vibes that manifest on I Don’t Know What I Don’t Know, and we could also imagine the track in a scene of a Netflix show like Elite or Knokke Off where the kids have taken a bunch of drugs and are causing havoc in their respective cities.
We learn that Silver Dawn is a bedroom producer who creates introspective, experimental glitch pop to explore the spaces between memory, emotion and sound. The artist was raised by a physicist father with a deep reverence for vinyl and an eclectic musical curiosity.
Silver Dawn grew up surrounded by records and encouraged to experiment with both music and scientific equipment from the National Physical Laboratory, developing an early fascination with the mathematics of vibration and its power to move us.
This lifelong search for how sound can evoke feeling led her to study jazz and composition at LCM, research the physics and history of music, perform across free jazz, samba, post-punk and experimental scenes, and teach herself music production.
We love the track and Silver Dawn‘s unique backstory, and have added I Don’t Know What I Don’t Know to our New Music Spotlight playlist and our TRIPPY playlist, whilst we continue to stream the wider discography of Silver Dawn, including The Tune, and Beautifully Awkward.