Mercurial Silence - Vinyl LP
Overview
Product Information
- Vinyl Format: Vinyl LP
- Release Date: 05-22-2026
- Label: Sargent House
- Genre: Rock
Track List
- Sun of Manes
- Uraeus
- Flaxstaff
- Hexameter
- Geush Urvan
- Niut Shaes
- Doubling Zurvan
- Mithudrsa
- Cloud Wolf
- Perfumer
- Ninefold
- Mercurial Silence
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For more than three decades, David Eugene Edwards has carved out a singular path through American music. First with the gothic folk urgency of 16 Horsepower, then with the devotional intensity of Wovenhand, and more recently through the stripped-down landscape of his solo work. On his sophomore solo album Mercurial Silence, Edwards continues the path established on his 2023 debut Hyacinth, while pushing his sound into new territory through the expanded use of electronic production and layered textures. The record finds Edwards channeling the stark intensity that has defined much of his career while embracing a broader sonic palette that feels both ancient and modern. His unmistakable voice moves through layers of bowed strings, percussive drones, and spectral electronics, giving Mercurial Silence the feeling of a transmission from somewhere just beyond reach. Written and recorded in June 2025 at Edwards' studio in Denver alongside Vincent Petitjean, Mercurial Silence reflects a deepening of both process and collaboration. For mixing and production, Edwards again worked with Derek Coburn in Los Angeles, who engineered and mixed Hyacinth, creating continuity between the two records while allowing the newer material to move into more layered territory. Across it's 12 songs, Mercurial Silence refines the thematic direction first explored on his debut while widening it's focus to consider the recurring stories cultures have told about the heavens and the earth, and how those realms intersect, interact, and continually reshape one another.
- Vinyl Format: Vinyl LP
- Release Date: 05-22-2026
- Label: Sargent House
- Genre: Rock
Track List
- Sun of Manes
- Uraeus
- Flaxstaff
- Hexameter
- Geush Urvan
- Niut Shaes
- Doubling Zurvan
- Mithudrsa
- Cloud Wolf
- Perfumer
- Ninefold
- Mercurial Silence
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