CENTER OF THE CITY LIGHTS

Released by Shifting Sounds

“Center of the City Lights is dreamy but also large and piercing-dreamy, like the post-Join Hands Banshees, 1980-1982 Cure, pre-War U2, and Fables of the Reconstruction R.E.M. were. Those 80's alterna-rockers' renown obfuscates how exceptional their guitarists were, and here's another proto-dreampop guitar band...The guitars fill the speakers so crushingly, the tunes have to be as big, and they are…”

Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover, Issue #84.

“Austin quartet Silver Bars is fast on their way to establishing a new standard for dream rock.”

Jack Anderson, KUTX Radio

“Stratospheric and captivating. Definitely one of the best albums I’ve heard all year.”

This Wreckage Blog

"Evoking an atmospheric dream-pop vibe to their music, Silver Bars released their debut full-length Center of the City Lights...Within the tracks, the tunes present bittersweet harmonies, melodic swirls of guitar riffs, and resonant rhythms."

Tommy Johnson, Ghettoblaster Magazine

"Debut albums are rarely this immediately endearing, but when you make excellent dreamscape rock, such as what Silver Bars have created here on Center of the City Lights, it finds a way to pull you in...Much like other dream pop-bands such as Beach House, Silver Bars have created sonic musical landscapes with cranked up guitars to help them stand apart."

Adam Grundy Chorus.fm

”Never more so than on cherry red vinyl does a band get a second shot at a first impression. Silver Bars' social designation sticks easily enough: "Dream Rock / Shoegaze / Indie band from Austin." Yet when a needle touches down on the opening groove of their 2019 debut LP – newly waxed earlier this year – the watery jangle of "Pulse" sells the homegrown quartet instantly with glistening minor notes and melancholy wonderment...The surf gaze of last year's video single "Lost You to L.A.," Cure-like jingle "Last Crash Landing," and the U2 guitar of B-side starter "Green Trees" all pop and soothe in the same measure.”

Raoul Hernandez, The Austin Chronicle

VIDEOS

lost you to la

directed by Craig Knapp