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1.1
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Cathedral
Vince Clarke |
4:21 | |||
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1.2
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White Rabbit
Vince Clarke |
4:40 | |||
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1.3
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Passage
Vince Clarke |
3:10 | |||
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1.4
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Imminent
Vince Clarke |
4:56 | |||
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1.5
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Red Planet
Vince Clarke |
4:40 | |||
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1.6
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The Lamentations of Jeremiah
Vince Clarke |
4:23 | |||
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1.7
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Mitosis
Vince Clarke |
4:51 | |||
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1.8
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Blackleg
Vince Clarke |
3:06 | |||
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1.9
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Scarper
Vince Clarke |
3:47 | |||
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1.10
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Last Transmission
Vince Clarke |
4:46 |
As the album title suggests, Songs of Silence is a lyricless, instrumental album, and is hugely evocative for that. Unlike anything you’ve previously heard from Vince Clarke as an artisan of dynamic electropop, Songs of Silence has about it a more sober ambient electronic beauty, its unique characteristics put it in a category of its own.
For the creation of the record Vince set himself two rules – first that the sounds he himself generated for the album would come solely from Eurorack (a modular synthesizer format introduced in the mid-90s) and secondly that each track would be based around one note, maintaining a single key throughout. The resultant pieces, with the Eurorack sound clay then manipulated on Logic Pro, amount to wordless narratives, in which a sense of synth-generated, cosmic remoteness is often jolted by stark interventions, reminders of the human hand at work amid this machinery.
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Mute Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.22 -0.24 to -0.21 | -12.85 -15.03 to -11.48 | -11.30 -13.50 to -9.60 | 7 5 to 10 | |
| 1 | Cathedral | -0.22 | -12.26 | -10.0 | 7 |
| 2 | White Rabbit | -0.22 | -12.17 | -11.0 | 7 |
| 3 | Passage | -0.21 | -14.80 | -13.4 | 8 |
| 4 | Imminent | -0.22 | -12.16 | -10.4 | 7 |
| 5 | Red Planet | -0.22 | -13.81 | -13.5 | 9 |
| 6 | The Lamentations of Jeremiah | -0.24 | -15.03 | -12.8 | 10 |
| 7 | Mitosis | -0.22 | -11.48 | -9.6 | 6 |
| 8 | Blackleg | -0.22 | -11.76 | -10.2 | 7 |
| 9 | Scarper | -0.22 | -13.21 | -11.7 | 7 |
| 10 | Last Transmission | -0.22 | -11.84 | -10.4 | 5 |