by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
Three years ago Ben Currotto released Breaks Up, a full length album from his band Cold Clod. If the title was meant to be literal, it does indeed seem as that project has come to an end, but the Burlington based songwriter returns with a new project, Silt, a band that feels every bit as introspective as his former collective and yet dials up the heaviness while retaining a sort of woodsy good nature. Recorded together with Jesse Moy (formerly of Giants) on drums, the duo have been working out their first batch of songs, with “This Feeling” marking their official debut.
The track has an awesome front porch kind of twang to it, heavy and ringing with a post-hardcore knottiness, but breezy enough to feel almost folk at it’s core. It’s a great combo that feels gorgeous but maybe a bit sinister. Currotto lyrics seem to stem from trying to write something very specific, capturing a feeling in words, and the struggle to do so. It’s a reflection of one lost expression while the music offers a deep and cathartic expression all its own.
Speaking about the track, Currotto said the song is about “a bewildering, unnameable, good, singular, and extremely specific feeling, and the absurd futility of trying to put it into a song. The chorus has no words because, like, "!?" Loud-quiet-loud to an extreme, the circumstantial details both close and massive, the guitars skipping and stretching at the feeling.”