Silver Pockets Full

21-04-2015
Author: Joey Huisman

The best music is made under the influence of strong emotions: intense happiness, heartbreaking grief, that kind of work. Records that are made in this way often give listeners a glimpse into the soul of a musician.

On the debut-EP Life Is Good we don’t get to look into the soul of the members of Silver Pockets Full. That’s a pity, but thankfully the three very well produced tracks are still more than worth listening.

Silver Pockets Full is active only since August 2014, although the four members have already played in several other formations. After the release of this debut (about a half year after they’d started) the men are working on their first full album. Productive bunch.

The band initially started writing acoustic songs, which were later converted to full-band tracks.

And that quiet approach is still found in their music, which is carefully constructed and sounds crystal clear. The foursome makes popsongs, patched with americana. Across that strong polyphonic vocals are heard.

Those qualities are best appreciated in the opening track Heavy Kind Of Soul, a song with passionate and strong vocals. The two other songs, Life Is Good and Red Wine also work out great for almost every detail (beautiful choruses, strong guitarparts), but lack the raw emotion that includes the first song though.

It is obvious they’ve got talent, and most certain they’ve got the technical skills, but Silver Pockets Full to my opinion could get a little rougher on the edges. A glance into the soul, otherwise there’s a middle of the road sound in wait.

Joey Huisman for Popunie (Freelance popjournalist. Writes for OOR, Festivalinfo, 3voor12 Zuid-Holland and Popunie) - Popunie

24-03-2015
Author: Peter Joore

Silver Pockets Full. Music to listen to. And again. And again. Then ... if you love travelin’ through music a comfortable band that reminds you of deserts, high temperatures and a touch of masochism. With an acoustic mindset listening to polyphonic harmonies and beautiful melodies, you imagine yourself in CSNY, thinking of the Allman Brothers or dreaming away with the Jayhawks.....

In August 2014 - not the most prominent Indian Summer - Erwin Mossel (guitar), Edwin Dortland (guitar), Freerk van Oudheusden (bass) and Fred Langhorst (drums) friendly grabbed each other by the musical throat. The 70s were revived. With Vlaardingen as restored crib. Call it Americana. Call it Schelvisana. A chewed formula? Certainly not. This revaluation still tastes just as fresh as nearly five decades ago.

Now that the first songs are ready and the playing gets the character it deserves, it is time for a complete CD. An album that pleasantly ripples, keeping the waves down on an air mattress, and connecting rock and soul to the musicality of today.

The Vlaardinger - avowed fan of King Crimson- was listening to Life is Good (EP) and spontaneously dreamed of highball glasses, ice cold beer and a tight dressed, on high-heeled pumps parading vamp. Pleasant and at replay worth every penny, unfolding history as a surprising repetition of music which has never previously been played this way.

Peter Joore is a freelance journalist writing for The Vlaardinger - De Vlaardinger