Silver Gore

Silver Gore filter electronic, indie-pop, folk-rock through a battered kaleidoscope. Dogs In Heaven, the London-based duo’s debut EP, is dark and dazzlingly beautiful, wringing moments of triumph and euphoria from dark thoughts and sepia-filtered genre experiments; the result is one of the year’s most idiosyncratic and deeply felt records - an indelible arrival for the duo of Ethan P. Flynn, an accomplished solo performer in his own right, and newcomer Ava Gore.

The duo started Silver Gore in 2022, almost by accident: Ava had been playing drums in Ethan’s solo band, and one night after rehearsal they decided to start writing songs together. That evening, they sowed the seeds for synth-pop earworm “All The Good Men”, with Dogs In Heaven’s grand, atmospheric final track “25 Metres” arriving in 2023.

Silver Gore are always trying to bottle a feeling in its most potent form, and as such take an instinctive approach to production and lyricism that translates to a raw immediacy in the finished product. “We always set out to make a song that speaks to how we’re feeling in a moment. Every decision is then based around that emotion whether it’s the lyrics or the drum sound or anything else,” Ava says of their sessions, which can last until dawn. “We try to document it exactly how it is in the moment and finish it then and there so we don’t have to pretend to dip back into specific feelings.”