Silver Moth (Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai, Elisabeth Elektra & Evi Vine) - Black Bay

Released 21st April 2023

A leap of faith reaps extraordinary rewards on Black Bay, an album of depth, atmosphere and daring from the collective known asSilver Moth. Recorded under unusual circumstances, Black Bay is the sound of seven storied musicians yielding to shared goals, apolicy of trust in action. Between hushed incantations and molten guitars, 15-minute noise-rock epics and healing psalms, therecord is a testament to connectivity and receptivity: to a union of disparate minds committing to something greater than the sumof its parts.

Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai, Elisabeth Elektra, Evi Vine, Steven Hill, members of Abrasive Trees, Burning House and ProstheticHead convened to improvise the album in early 2021, inspired by a Twitter exchange between Abrasive Trees guitarist/songwriterMatthew Rochford, musician Elisabeth Elektra and fellow artist Nick Hudson about the Isle of Lewis. A couple of Zoom meetingswould subsequently lead to