Silence Between Songs

by Madison Beer

Overview

While Madison Beer got personal on her full-length debut, Life Support (2021), an album that tackled grief, breakups, and struggles with mental health, she gets even more vulnerable on the restrained, ballad-heavy follow-up, Silence Between Songs. Working with around a dozen producers and co-writers, among them Life Support's Leroy Clampitt and One Love, its more intimate character was at least partly inspired by Lana Del Rey, who received her own advance copy of the record. Jazz pianist and music polymath James Francies and Grammy-winning songwriter Tobias Jesso, Jr. were among the behind-the-scenes contributors to the lyrical "Dangerous," one of many strings-embellished (and sometimes rock-injected) ballads here that deal with relationships gone wrong. Also included in the 14-song set are the pulsing "Home to Another One" and "Sweet Relief," whose thumping bass rhythms are nonetheless accompanied by a wispy, introspective vocal delivery, and the '60s pop-inflected "I Wonder," which was written by Beer, Clampitt, Norwegian producer/songwriter Fred Ball (Rihanna, Jessie Reyez), and Lucy Healey (Chelsea Cutler, Delacey). Appearing soon after that song in the track list is the Turtles-sampling "Showed Me (How I Fell in Love with You)." For anyone who missed it in the meantime, she finally does deliver diva-styled pop with the final kiss-off track "King of Everything" ("You're the king of nothing now"). Silence Between Songs became Beer's second straight album to debut in the U.K. Top 30 and the top half of the Billboard 200. ~ Marcy Donelson

Product Details

Release Date:	09/15/2023
Label:	Epic
UPC:	0196587665319

Tracks

1. Spinnin
2. Sweet Relief
3. Envy the Leaves
4. 17
5. Ryder
6. Nothing Matters But You
7. I Wonder
8. At Your Worst
9. Showed Me (How I Fell in Love with You)
10. Home to Another One
11. Dangerous
12. Reckless
13. Silence Between Songs
14. King of Everything

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Madison Beer   Primary Artist,Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Fred Ball   Bass,Organ,Piano,Mellotron,Synthesizer,Drum Machine
Chris Woods   Viola
Judy Kang   Cello
Morgan Paros   Violin
Tim Sommers   Bass,Drums,Organ,Piano,Shaker,Clapping,Keyboards,Mellotron,Wurlitzer,Percussion,Synthesizer,Drum Machine,Handclapping,Synthesizer Bass,Vocals (Background)
Amanda Lo   Violin
Leah Metzler   Cello
Leroy Clampitt   Bass,Drums,Piano,Guitar,Keyboards,Mellotron,Wurlitzer,Percussion,Synthesizer,Drum Machine,Drums (Steel),Bass (Electric),Lap Steel Guitar,Vocals (Background)
James Francies   Piano,Conductor,Keyboards
Ben Barter   Drums
Kinga Bacik   Strings
Laurann Angel   Violin
Adam Melchor   Guitar
Lucy Healey   Vocals (Background)

Technical Credits

Gene Clark   Composer,Lyricist
Ezekiel Lewis   A&R
Roger McGuinn   Composer,Lyricist
Randy Merrill   Mastering,Mastering Engineer
Fred Ball   Composer,Engineer,Lyricist,Producer,Drum Programming,String Programming
Jeremy Dussolliet   Composer,Lyricist
Tim Sommers   Composer,Engineer,Lyricist,Programming,Drum Programming,Vocal Arrangement
Bekah Connolly   A&R
Mitch McCarthy   Mixing,Engineer,Mixing Engineer
Lowell Boland   Composer,Lyricist
Madison Beer   Composer,Lyricist,Producer,Art Direction,Vocal Arrangement,Executive Producer
Riccardo Damian   Engineer
Tobias Jesso, Jr.   Composer,Lyricist
Oscar Scivier   Executive Producer
Leroy Clampitt   Composer,Engineer,Lyricist,Producer,Programming,Vocal Producer,Bass Programming,Drum Programming,Vocal Arrangement,Executive Producer,String Programming,String Arrangements
James Francies   Arranger,Producer,String Arrangements
Francesca Grassi   A&R
Tiffany Sant'anseimo   A&R
One Love   Producer,Additional Production
Lucy Healey   Composer,Lyricist,Vocal Arrangement
Jack Scott   Design
Patrick Curry   Assistant Engineer
Travis Baker   Design