With a sound that will have you helplessly immerse your senses into its carefully built world, ‘Crowded Silence’ by Social Treble gives you a soundtrack for what our lives may feel like in the not-so-distant future.
A certain kind of chaos drives the instrumentation, with layers erratically coming together. The layers have been purposely put together in a way that resists perfect coherence. Reverb drenched, echoey guitar riffs bring in a frantic, urgent energy to the song. The fast-paced percussion shifts and moves around to add to that uncertain, tension filled atmosphere. The broody, mysterious basslines in the song are quite spine-chilling. The track uses a cyberpunk sound to do all of this, and quite fittingly so, considering the mood it gives off.
The track closes in on you, as it moves through sections, mimicking the constant surveillance that the internet does on us, where it hears all that we say, and predicts our choices, where it reads all that we type and feeds itself with that information. The song conceptualises a world where every single move that we make becomes digital data and focuses on the dangers of that surveillance through its dark, immersive sonic routes. It creates a narrative through its instrumental music that we are able to look at our lives through.
The song is a true experiment in the world of music, an experiment that results in really unique concepts and productions. If you are into songs that stray from the norms of lyrics to give you a story, then this track should be your next listen.