Connecting two Midwest locales – the big city of Chicago, Illinois and the small town of Traverse City, Michigan – the indie band Stolen Silver went to great lengths to record their latest E.P. titled Sanctuary Sessions, which is set to drop later this summer.
What brought the members from the big city out to the pastoral lands of Wisconsin for this recording was a 150-year-old Gothic church. The E.P. was tracked and filmed live on location.
The lead single from the sessions, “Still,” is a warm, airy and enchanting song with intimate melodies. One of my first thoughts when listening to this track was what a perfect road trip song it is.
There are not many bands that we’d dare say sound a bit like Fleet Foxes (remember them?), but there are moments when listening to this track that the comparison is almost unmistakable. But in a way that is still Stolen Silver’s own.
Other elements like touches of soul and pop are expressed in the enchanting instrumentation and the captivating vocals, demonstrating a keen level of musical and lyrical sophistication.
Obviously part of the band’s journey to the historic church was for the acoustics and overall setting of the space – both of which make for compelling audio and video. The video was shot with numerous angles and close-ups of the band members performing.
The band’s roots go back a decade ago when musicians and songwriters Dan Myers and Levi Britton were rooming together in Chicago.
Over time, they discovered similar musical interests and began to respect one another’s work. So much so that they began writing and recording together and thus formed Stolen Silver.
Over the years, their initial vision of a folk duo expanded into a full six-piece band featuring a collection of veteran multi-instrumentalists and drummers like Christopher Sterr; John Paul; Jonathan Tornga; Shawn Rios; and more recently, Red Wanting Blue’s drummer Dean Anshutz and bassist Joe Ayoub (Shakira, Enrique).
The duo, with a supporting band, has toured extensively around the Midwest and the United States. Nowadays, half of the band resides in Chicago while the other half lives in Traverse City, Michigan.
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