About

Silence Dugood is a band born out of desperation. Blake Markham had the lyrical chops to write great songs but somewhat lacked the musical creativity needed. Fiona on the other hand had unique sounds oozing out every available orifice, but didn't quite have the vocabulary to put meaning to those amazing tunes. So one day they joined forces to become the unstoppable duo, Mirrored! But later decided that was a crappy name for a band (no offense to others using that name if you are) and changed it to Silence Dugood after the pseudonym of Ben Franklin when he was only fifteen. Silence Dugood quickly established themselves as a "force to be reckoned with" among their fellow Tulsa area musicians.

Epic
Let's start with the fact that it takes balls of steel to upload a nearly eight minute song for the notoriously attention-deficit garageband.com crew to review. I admit I probably groaned audibly when the time indicator popped up.

But, then I was catapulted into the song by that lovely acoustic guitar and the harmonics, and we were off . . This song builds nicely up to the 'So Alone' line.

An interesting call and response type of vocal in the first segment. Very tight. The female voice particularly is wonderfully racked with emotion, she seems like she would be comfortable in many different genres. Overall the music itself and the performance particularly were very strong

An interesting cross pollenation of styles. There are elements of a lot of different styles at work here

The banjo and harp passage was particularly delightful then the dobro slides in and the mood is painted wonderfully.

The weakness, (if there was one) I felt was in the lyrics. With an obvious attempt at something truly epic, here . . . a few of the phrases seemed a little contrived; ie. 'feeling so abused'.

I didn't care too much for the dischordant vocal slide at around 3:07. Other than that, it's an extrordinary effort, and I'm very excited to hear more from this band. Good luck!
Extra Credit: Female Vocals, Originality.

knotlenny
Mucklands (Upstate), New York
May 4^th, 2006

Several of their songs were chosen as the Track of the Day!

They were featured on
June 2, 7, 26, 29, April 22  
 May  7/16/17/18/31
and July 1st

You can stay up with some of the news on
Silence Dugood's MySpace website at
www.myspace.com/silencedugood