{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox album | name = Golden Silence | type = studio | artist = the Narrative | cover = The Narrative - Golden Silence.jpg | alt = | released = December 2, 2016 | recorded = {{plainlist| *March 26, 2012 – April 2012 at: English Cathedral Barn<br />(Hunter, New York) *2013–2014 at: Red Wire Audio<br />(New York, NY) }} | venue = | studio = | genre = {{flatlist| *Indie rock *contemporary pop *synth-pop }} | length = {{Duration|m=46|s=31}} | label = | producer = {{flatlist| *Bryan Russell *The Narrative }} | prev_title = B-Sides and Seasides | prev_year = 2012 | next_title = | next_year = | misc = {{Singles | name = Golden Silence | type = studio | single1 = Chasing a Feeling | single1date = June 3, 2014 | single2 = Moving Out | single2date = January 12, 2016 | single3 = Toe the Line | single3date = January 27, 2016 }} }}
'''''Golden Silence''''' is the second full-length studio album by American indie pop band the Narrative, released on December 2, 2016. The album was produced by Bryan Russell and Justin Long at Red Wire Audio in New York.<ref name="Newsday">{{cite web |url=https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/the-narrative-bellmore-duo-working-on-new-album-o54347 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029201751/http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/the-narrative-bellmore-duo-working-on-new-album-1.3791859 |url-status=live |archive-date=October 29, 2013 |title=The Narrative: Bellmore duo working on new album |author=Anna Halkidis |date=June 9, 2012 |website=NewsDay |publisher=NewsDay |access-date=May 25, 2014}}</ref> "Chasing a Feeling" was released as the album's lead single on June 3, 2014.<ref name="single"/> The promotional single from the album, "Moving Out" was released on January 12, 2016, followed by "Toe the Line" released on January 27, 2016.<ref name="NCFNN" /> On October 28, 2016, the band released the songs "California Sun",<ref name="All Things Go">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allthingsgomusic.com/premiere-the-narrative-california-sun/|title=Premiere: The Narrative – California Sun {{!}} All Things Go|website=www.allthingsgomusic.com|access-date=October 28, 2016|archive-date=September 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925230757/https://www.allthingsgomusic.com/premiere-the-narrative-california-sun/|url-status=dead}}</ref> followed by "Oklahoma Air" on November 9 and "Reason to Leave" on November 21 promoting the album before its release.<ref name="Impose">{{Cite web|url=http://imposemagazine.com/bytes/new-music/the-narrative-oklahoma-air|title=The Narrative, "Oklahoma Air" {{!}} New Music {{!}} Impose Magazine|website=imposemagazine.com|access-date=September 9, 2016}}</ref>
==Background and recording== {{Quote box | quote = "It's going to be different from our previous stuff, we still embrace a lot of the things that people like about our music, but we experimented in a lot of places as well. Production-wise we are going in a bit of a different direction (...) For better or for worse, we’ve changed the way we see the process of writing and recording in general." | source = Zeldin, on the Golden Silence.<ref name="cooltry">{{cite web|title=The Narrative Interview|url=http://cooltry.com.au/the-narrative-interview/|website=Cooltry|accessdate=18 July 2014|date=May 13, 2012}}</ref> | align = left | width = 26% }} On July 27, 2010, the Narrative released their self-titled studio album ''The Narrative''. After its release, they went in national tour on to promote the album. In 2011 the band made its first performance at the festival Vans Warped Tour in July followed by another CMJ Music Marathon performance in the end of the year. Later in 2012, the Narrative stated to ''AbsolutePunk'', that they had begun writing and working on their second studio album.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=2680592|title = The Narrative Begin Recording New Album|date = March 26, 2012 |accessdate =August 26, 2014|website = AbsolutePunk|publisher = Spin Media|last = Tate|first = Jason}}</ref> Recording sessions began on March 26, 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.alterthepress.com/2012/03/narrative-start-recording-new-album.html|title = The Narrative Start Recording New Album|date = March 2012|accessdate = July 18, 2014|website = Alter The Press!|publisher = Spin Media|last = ABLESON|first = Jon}}</ref><ref name="propertyofzack">{{Cite web|url = http://propertyofzack.com/post/19960336288/the-narrative-begin-recording-new-record|title = The Narrative Begin Recording New Record|date = March 26, 2012|accessdate = July 19, 2014|website = Property Of Zack|publisher = Spin Media|last = Zarrillo|first = Zack}}</ref> The band chose to record the album in a different way of the previous, recorded entirely in a closed studio.<ref name="cooltry" /> They spent one month recording the most part of the instrumentals, vocals and sounds elements and producing it, at an English cathedral barn built in 1900, in Upstate New York, Hunter.<ref name="cooltry"/> The recordings in the barn were finished in April 2012, after that the duo went to the studio Red Wire Audio in Brooklyn to finish the album tracking.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Zarrillo|first1=Zack|title=The Narrative Album Update|url=http://propertyofzack.com/post/21287335107/the-narrative-album-update|website=Property Of Zack|publisher=Spin Media|accessdate=June 4, 2014|date=April 17, 2012}}</ref> The album was produced by Bryan Russell, who has produced the previous albums released by the band, and Justin Long. The band also worked with the music producer and mixer, Richard Flack, who has previously produced records for Florence and the Machine and Robbie Williams.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.thenarrativemusic.com/#!CURRENTLY-MIXING/c1ldp/E7C8F138-9360-40C5-A33E-A10E7915B31A|title = Currently Mixing|date = August 29, 2014|accessdate = September 3, 2014|website = The Narrative Blog|publisher = |last = |first = |archive-date = October 8, 2013|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131008023244/http://www.thenarrativemusic.com/#!CURRENTLY-MIXING/c1ldp/E7C8F138-9360-40C5-A33E-A10E7915B31A|url-status = dead}}</ref> Without a drummer member, the duo was helped by their friend Jay Scalchunes and also by Ari Sadowitz, who recorded the bass. The Narrative had announced the album's release date to mid-2012, but the date was delayed, due its conclusion.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://thenarrative.tumblr.com/post/27494585546/the-case-of-the-missing-narrative|title = The Case of the Missing The Narrative|date = July 18, 2012|accessdate = August 17, 2014|website = Tumblr|publisher = |last = Gabriel|first = Jesse|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141219035943/http://thenarrative.tumblr.com/post/27494585546/the-case-of-the-missing-narrative|archive-date = December 19, 2014|url-status = dead}}</ref><ref name="Reybee" /> On June 3, 2014, was announced through their official website, its first single from the album titled "Chasing a Feeling" released on June 3, 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.thenarrativemusic.com/#!CHECK-OUT-OUR-NEW-SINGLE-CHASING-A-FEELING/c1ldp/D833DC0E-C412-4343-8BE9-FB6AE45111C8|title = Check out our new single "Chasing a Feeling"|date = June 3, 2014|accessdate = July 19, 2014|website = The Narrative Official Blog|publisher = |last = |first = |archive-date = October 8, 2013|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131008023244/http://www.thenarrativemusic.com/#!CHECK-OUT-OUR-NEW-SINGLE-CHASING-A-FEELING/c1ldp/D833DC0E-C412-4343-8BE9-FB6AE45111C8|url-status = dead}}</ref> While Zeldin went on tour with the Americana band Twin Forks, Gabriel started recording a solo album with Russell. The project was announced through the Narrative's Facebook account on February 15, 2014, and on October 12, Gabriel released the album ''Here, Sit, Stay'' through digital download.<ref name="Reybee" /><ref>{{cite web|title=iTunes – Music – "Here, Sit, Say" by Jesse Gabriel|url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/here-sit-stay/id932014420?uo=8&at=11lJIS|website=iTunes US|publisher=Apple Inc.}}{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
The production of the album finished in April 2016, according to the website which stated that the album took longer to be finished due to the instrumentation recording of different instruments and more complex arrangements and the mixing of it in the UK with Richard Flack. The band also worked with Sam Moses for the album mastering in Nashville, TN.<ref name="NCFNN" /> Also the band stated that the album was delayed due to the "budgetary constraints of the independent group leding to a slowing and eventual end of the project".<ref name="Impose" />
== Style and influences == To write and compose the musical style of the ''Golden Silence,'' the band took influences from folk artists such as Counting Crows, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, Bruce Springsteen, Regina Spektor, Modest Mouse and Jimmy Eat World.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.facebook.com/thenarrativemusic/posts/10151161776807059|title = Q&A on Facebook by The Narrative|date = |accessdate = |website = Facebook|publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref> They used of different instruments, such as Koto, orchestral arrangements, horns and bass clarinet, ambient elements, violoncello, ukuleles, autoharps and accordions as well the band explored the synthpop and the contemporary pop, using mixing synthesizers and electronic drums.<ref name="Reybee">{{Cite web|url = http://reybee.com/narrative/514/|title = Another Reybee Productions present.... THE NARRATIVE!!!|date = June 3, 2014|accessdate = July 19, 2014|website = Reybee|publisher = Press release|last = |first = |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170925230216/http://reybee.com/narrative/514/|archive-date = September 25, 2017|url-status = dead}}</ref> "It's more explorative," Gabriel affirmed to ''NewsDay, ''"The release keep the same mix of female-male vocals", Zeldin added.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Halkidis|first1=Anna|title=The Narrative: Bellmore duo working on new album|url=https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/the-narrative-bellmore-duo-working-on-new-album-o54347|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029201751/http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/the-narrative-bellmore-duo-working-on-new-album-1.3791859|url-status=live|archive-date=October 29, 2013|website=NewsDay|publisher=NewsDay|access-date=June 4, 2014|date=June 19, 2012}}</ref>
== Promotion and release == [[File:Converted Barn used b The Narrative in 2012 at Hunter New York.jpg|thumbnail|Converted barn used by The Narrative to record arrangements and vocals for "Chasing a Feeling".<ref name="propertyofzack"/>]] After leaving the barn, the Narrative released a B-side compilation, titled ''B-Sides and Seasides'' on April 4, 2012, to fund the album production with donation packages sold through their official website. These donation packages included from digital downloads to Skype performances, exclusive items and private acoustic shows.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.thenarrativemusic.com/donate.html |title=The Narrative – Donate |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131108071610/http://www.thenarrativemusic.com/donate.html |archivedate=November 8, 2013 |accessdate=August 27, 2014}}</ref> Afterward, they published online a lyric video of the b-side track "Hallelujah" containing footages from the album recordings.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=2697722|title = The Narrative Lyric Video|date = April 8, 2012|accessdate = August 17, 2014|website = AbsolutePunk|publisher = Spin Media|last = Nassiff|first = Thomas}}</ref> The large promotion for the album came earlier when the band was featured in an interview on ''NewsDay'' on June 19, 2012, where they talked about the album production during its recording stages.<ref name="Newsday" /> On November 15, 2012, to December 9, 2012, the songs "Toe The Line" and "Moving Out" were revealed live on their small tour of the east coast on United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=2920082|title = The Narrative Tour Dates|date = October 12, 2012|accessdate = July 19, 2014|website = Absolute Punk|publisher = Spin Media|last = Gardner|first = Ryan}}</ref>
In the beginning of 2014, the band start to tease previews of the songs they recorded in the album's rehearsals at the barn, onto their Instagram account.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://propertyofzack.com/post/84126421449/the-narrative-tease-new-song-from-long-awaited-album|title = The Narrative Tease New Song From Long Awaited Album|date = April 28, 2014|accessdate = August 17, 2014|website = PropertyOfZack|publisher = Spin Media|last = Zarrillo|first = Zack}}</ref> The album's track listing was published by the band on a Facebook update on September, 26.
== Singles == On July 3, 2014, the Narrative released, to digital retailers, their lead single from the album, "Chasing a Feeling" premiered courtesy of ''American Songwriter''.<ref name="single">{{cite web |url=http://www.americansongwriter.com/2014/06/song-premiere-narrative-chasing-feeling/ |title=Song Premiere: The Narrative, "Chasing a Feeling" |last1=MINTER |first1=Will |date=June 3, 2013 |website=American Songwriter |publisher=American Songwriter |accessdate=June 3, 2014}}</ref> The music video for "Chasing a Feeling" was directed by the photographers Sean O'Kane with help of Hilary J. Corts, and shot on November 11, 2013, at Allentown, PA.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=3521181 |title=The Narrative Shooting Music Video |author=Jason Tate |date=November 6, 2013 |website=Absolute Punk |publisher=Absolute Punk |accessdate=May 24, 2014}}</ref> It was premièred on July 28, 2014, on ''Idolator''.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.idolator.com/7528501/the-narratives-chasing-a-feeling-video-idolator-premiere|archive-url = https://archive.today/20140806015449/http://www.idolator.com/7528501/the-narratives-chasing-a-feeling-video-idolator-premiere|url-status = dead|archive-date = August 6, 2014|title = The Narrative's "Chasing A Feeling" Video: Idolator Premiere|date = July 28, 2014|accessdate = July 28, 2014|website = Idolator|publisher = Spin Media|last = Daw|first = Robbie}}</ref>
=== Promotional singles === "Moving Out" was released as a promotional single on January 12, 2016, through digital download.<ref name="NCFNN">{{Cite web|title = [NO COUNTRY PREMIERE] The Narrative Spring Back to Life with New Single "Moving Out" {{!}} No Country For New Nashville|url = http://nocountryfornewnashville.com/2016/01/12/no-country-premiere-the-narrative-spring-back-to-life-with-new-single-moving-out/|access-date = January 12, 2016}}</ref> Different from the first single, "Moving Out" features the style of alternative rock and pop punk.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Moving Out – Single by The Narrative on iTunes|url = https://itunes.apple.com/en/album/moving-out-single/id1074654755|website = iTunes|access-date = January 21, 2016|publisher = iTunes US}}{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> The following promotional single "Toe the Line" was released on January 27, 2016. On October 28, 2016, the band released the song "California Sun" to announce the release date of the album.<ref name="All Things Go" /> Still promoting the album release, the band premiered on November 9, 2016, the song "Oklahoma Air" along with the pre-order of the album on the iTunes Store.<ref name="Impose" /> Its last single, before the album release, "Reason to Leave" was released November 21, 2016.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.glidemagazine.com/175769/song-premiere-narrative-tackle-immigration-policies-hauntingly-beautiful-reason-leave/|title=SONG PREMIERE: The Narrative Tackle Immigration Policies on Hauntingly Beautiful "Reason to Leave" – Glide Magazine|date=November 21, 2016|newspaper=Glide Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=November 27, 2016}}</ref>
== Track listing == {{Track listing | extra_column = | total_length = 46:31
| all_writing = Suzie Zeldin, Jesse Gabriel
| title1 = Moving Out | extra1 = | length1 = 4:14
| title2 = Chasing a Feeling | extra2 = | length2 = 4:32
| title3 = Already Changed | extra3 = | length3 = 4:29
| title4 = Toe the Line | extra4 = | length4 = 4:13
| title5 = Oklahoma Air | extra5 = | length5 = 4:35
| title6 = I Can Make a Mess | extra6 = | length6 = 5:40
| title7 = California Sun | extra7 = | length7 = 5:07
| title8 = Home | extra8 = | length8 = 4:12
| title9 = Reason to Leave | extra9 = | length9 = 3:22
| title10 = Suburbs | extra10 = | length10 = 6:07 }}
== Personnel == '''The Narrative''' * Suzie Zeldin – vocals, piano, keyboards, songwriting, percussion * Jesse Gabriel – vocals, guitar, banjo, koto, autoharp, songwriting, percussion
'''Additional musicians''' * Alex Overington – instrumental arrangements * Jay Scalchunes – drums, percussion * Ari Sadowitz – bass * Bryan Russell – accordion * Dylan Ebrahimian – violin * Jon Block – violin * Phil Carter – viola * Mohit Mansukani – cello * David Harary – clarinet, bass clarinet * Karri Diomede – flute * Wes Maples – saxophone * Jonathan D. Schneck – banjo
'''Production''' * Bryan Russell – production, engineering * Justin Long – engineering * Sean Killary – engineering * Richard Flack – mixing * Jon Florencio – mixing * Sam Moses – mastering * Vicky Dinka – photography
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