Premiere: The Silkies Share New Single “Digital Soo”
Take heed to the Monitor Beneath
Jul 25, 2025
The Silkies are a brand new indie rock band primarily based out of Cincinnati. After the band’s former incarnation fell aside because of the pandemic—one week earlier than they have been set to tour with Band of Horses—the members went their separate methods and commenced engaged on their very own initiatives. Nonetheless, a handful of them reconvened earlier this yr with a brand new lineup and commenced recording new music collectively as The Silkies. Since then, they’ve booked a handful of help slots with artists like The Criticals, J Roddy Walston, New Constellations, Juan Wauters, and Warmduscher, and shared their debut single, “IDK,” Right now, they’re again with one other new monitor, “Digital Soo,” premiering with Below the Radar.
“Digital Soo” takes the dreamy psych pop that coloured “IDK” and amps up the vitality, giving the monitor a motorik, energetic drive. The monitor’s stinging guitar riffs evoke anxious submit punk touchstones like Parquet Courts, whereas the taut rhythm part drives it ahead and steadily rachets up the strain. Later, all of this rigidity sprawls outward on the free, shout-along choruses earlier than descending into densely layered labyrinths of psychedelic results on the outro. Amidst the entire slashing guitar traces, vocalist Joe Pruitt rants and howls out his lyrics, reflecting on the ways in which the digital world has been used to distract and divide our collective consciousness: “Minds on fireplace / The opposition / Is killing us all / Obtained no passport / No vaccination / Man, how can I go away? / Yeah, their rubbish / Man, I want it / There’s no finish to the greed.”
Producer Jake Merritt says of the monitor, “Basically, ‘Digital Soo’ is about how the web and social media can function a distraction from actual life and what really issues to us. Not solely can it distract us, it might probably algorithmically change who we’re as individuals. There are tons of examples of very regular people who find themselves pushed into very radical views primarily based on a weak point algorithms wish to exploit- Whether or not or not it’s purposefully main us in the direction of beliefs, or simply making an attempt to maintain us on particular platforms longer.
We recorded the monitor the day after the final election. Seeing the three wealthiest individuals within the nation, who additionally occur to personal tech corporations, on stage on the inauguration was a bit troubling.”
Pruitt continues, “I additionally really feel prefer it’s not one-sided both. Everyone seems to be fed stuff that they hate on-line, which pushes us additional aside, much less understanding, and hateful. Expertise needs to be used for the betterment of humanity, however as an alternative, it’s being became a instrument of division wielded by billionaires.”
Take heed to the monitor beneath, and put it aside right here. Discover their upcoming tour dates beneath.
TOUR DATES:
July 25- Zanzabar / Louisville*
July 26- Madison Dwell / Covington*
July 27 – Turntable / Indianapolis*
*Veaux and Fox Royale
August 12 – Beachland Tavern / Cleveland
Oct 2 – Woodward Theater / Cincinnati / W Warmduscher
