The Great Chaos is the new album from Brooklyn goth and dark dreampop band Silent Mass. The LP arrives in honour of the Summer Solstice. The songs unfold as a collection of vignettes, illuminating dark, hidden areas of consciousness. Each track channels themes of self-alienation, distorted emotions, restlessness, self-forgiveness, and realization. The memories from these periods emerge like stills taken from a film—sometimes blurred and disorienting, other times dreamy and almost illusory. The band’s love of Post-Punk, Shoegaze, and 90s Alternative, shines through on their new release.

Silent Mass began in Los Angeles as a solitary pursuit by Ammo Bankoff, with her debut single, a cover of “Total Recall” which dropped in 2020 via Dune Altar as part of the charity compilation Do You Feel That Way Too? A Tribute to Adrian Borland & The Sound. Shortly after, she relocated with audio engineer and guitarist Robert Duncan to join drummer and producer Alex Posell in NYC.

Since then, Silent Mass released two more singles, ‘Rose + Crown’ and ‘A Cold War City’ in 2021. “Ammo recalls so many different artists (Kate Bush, Jane Siberry, Cocteau Twins, Slowdive), while not sounding particularly like any of them very much. Their latest single “The Great Chaos,” “Is a love song about mourning a version of your past self,” proclaims Ammo.

The band have played sold-out shows as far as Berlin and Los Angeles, and have shared the stage with True Widow, played NYC’s five-day New Colossus Festival. The songs unfold as a collection of vignettes, illuminating dark, hidden areas of consciousness. Each track channels themes of self-alienation, distorted emotions, restlessness, self-forgiveness, and realization. The memories from these periods emerge like stills taken from a film—sometimes blurred and disorienting, other times dreamy and almost illusory.

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