There is more than one band called The Silver: 1) Mysterious Finnish DIY outsider band that released two singles and a cassette from 1979 - 1981, which is basically 12-13 year olds making garage rock which sounds like noise rock Shaggs or if SPK went garage. Whether their youthful cacophony was produced by plucking piano strings, rattling wash-tubs or beating a guitar with Barbie dolls, remains a mystery. "Do You Wanna Dance?" b/w "Popper" was ranked #9 on Johan Kugelberg's Top 100 D.I.Y. singles. He wrote: "A riddle wrapped inside an enigma etc. The band appears to be around 12-13 years old. They hail from Finland where the trail grew cold a long long time ago. Maybe upon the release of the record. Pussy Galore without post-modern baggage. 'Love Theme from the Snails' as performed by SPK. 12 year olds virtually destroying a recording studio captured on tape, not once but four times." Their long-lost cassette album, The Last of the Mohicans, was unearthed in January 2015 when Finland's Broadcasting Company YLE made an investigative online multimedia-article about the enigmatic band. Within days another news story revealed that a few cassettes have surfaced from a record collector's archive. More copies have subsequently emerged from various locations throughout Finland. members: Harry Angel, Calamity Jane, Steve Mink. 2)Driven by charging bass lines, lit by jarringly harmonized guitars, and suffused with plaintive, floating vocals, The Silver plays songs that pound and flicker, that ebb and explode. London-based, via San Francisco, Brooklyn and back again, The Silver is compared to bands like Eels, The Jam, Modest Mouse, Death Cab, The Helio Sequence, Elvis Costello, The Cure, The Smashing Pumpkins and early U2. Heavily influenced by by post-punk, ska and alternative rock, 'Waveforms' - the debut album from The Silver - deals variously with the nature of solitude, the art of self-medication and the anxiety of passing time. Driving, volatile and vaguely melancholic, the album is an outstanding work of post-punk noir; of hard-edged ghost-rock. The Silver was previously incarnated on the West coast as silversphere - with the haunting 2006 release ‘Songs of Longing & Loss’ hailed by fans as ‘an enigmatic, atmospheric gem.’ A move to the East in 2008 marked a shift to a harder-edged, uneasier sound - of which 'Waveforms' is the culmination. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.