Finisterre

One of the Silverman’s most fully contemplative works, 2013’s Finisterre partially serves as an exploration of what has been called dark or cold ambient, taking the slow unfoldings of various electronics to create a feeling of isolation and suspension instead of a warm bath in sound, as on the mechanistic build of the concluding track, “Spring.” The squirrelly touches to “Fitzroy Cromarty” give a sense of unknown stowaways in a vast vessel of some sort, while the steady cycle of “Oscar’s Last Day” provides, if not exactly serenity, then the sense of some kind of a cosmic progress.