Out of Vancouver’s shadowed margins, The Silence Industry returns March 13, 2026 with its 14th long-form dispatch, The Stars Above are Looking Down. The album unfolds like a slow-burn nocturne for a collapsing century: five original pieces, a reimagined traditional song, and fragments of drifting noise experiments welded into the project’s brooding progressive-noise-goth aesthetic. It’s less a collection of tracks than a passage through dim corridors of sound.
Expect guitars soaked in delay and corrosion colliding with skeletal drum machines and cavernous basslines. The result is a landscape thick with unease—anxiety, grief, flickers of hope, and that stubborn instinct to push back against the creeping machinery of a dystopian present. Each piece arrives paired with hand-drawn artwork from British zine artist iesorno, while a print-it-yourself lyric and art zine invites listeners to step deeper into the album’s tactile, DIY universe.
The record lands worldwide across streaming platforms and digital stores, but devotees will find extra treasures lurking beneath the surface. A hidden bonus download waits on Bandcamp for those inclined to dig, while physical editions—CD and vinyl—arrive through Elasticstage, giving collectors something tangible to hold onto once the noise fades.
Founded in 2007 by Graham, The Silence Industry has always operated as a fluid, collaborative project with little interest in polish or accessibility. Its catalog—spread across netlabels like Ekleipsi, Enough Records, and afmusic, alongside numerous freely shared releases—embraces the ethos of libre music: sound as expression, agitation, diary, poetry, and experiment rather than commodity. Drawing from post-punk, progressive rock, folk traditions, labor songs, noise, and the occasional pop ghost, the project remains defiantly human—uncompromising, unfiltered, and unconcerned with pleasing everyone.
Track listing:
01 – is there anybody out there?
02 – shadows on your throne
03 – the knife
04 – john brown’s body (version)
05 – the coldest fire
06 – these fascist drunkards want to kill all of us
07 – sinking slowly (into earth)
08 – this looming autumn
The Stars Above are Looking Down will be available worldwide across all streaming platforms and download stores. For dedicated listeners, there is an exclusive hidden bonus download on Bandcamp. Physical editions, including CD and vinyl, will be released through Elasticstage, completing the immersive experience for collectors and devoted fans alike.