Songs of Silence: Vinyl LP Cardi B Licensed courtesy of Universal Music

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the group were composing and recording a series of extraordinarily successful singles and albums

It welcomes with a sparse rhythm until percolating synths and propulsive bass build and make it all a reality with unsustainable imagery — oceans stuck inside hospital corridors and insane funerals

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Songs of Silence: Vinyl LP Cardi B Licensed courtesy of Universal MusicVince Clarke presents, unbelievably, his first ever solo album, Songs of Silence. As the album title suggests, Songs of Silence is a lyric less, instrumental album, and is hugely evocative for that. Unlike anything youve previously heard from Vince Clarke, as an artisan of dynamic electropop, (Erasure, Depeche Mode, Yazoo), Songs of Silence has about it a more sober ambient electronic beauty, its unique characteristics put it in a category of its own.