Broken by Silence is the first studio EP by British synthpop

Synthpop

Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...

 band Mirrors

Mirrors (band)

Mirrors are an English synthpop band originating from Brighton who formed in 2008. The band consists of James New , Ally Young , James Arguile and Josef Page...

. The EP was first available during the Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are a synthpop group whose founding members are originally from the Wirral Peninsula, England...

 tour in Germany in November 2010 for which Mirrors were the support act. The EP was later made available on the Skint Records

Skint Records

Skint Records is a Brighton based dance music record label owned by JC Reid, Tim Jeffery and Damian Harris. It was created as a sublabel of Loaded Records, also founded by Reid and Jeffery...

 website due to popular demand.

The EP contains nine tracks of which six are original Mirrors recordings (including three B-sides), two are remixes and one is a cover by Laura Cantrell

Laura Cantrell

Laura Cantrell is a country singer-songwriter and DJ from Nashville, Tennessee. She used to present a weekly country and old-time music radio show on WFMU in New Jersey called The Radio Thrift Shop...

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Track listing

Personnel

All tracks except track 7:

• James New
• Ally Young
• James Arguile
• Josef Page

Track 7:

• Laura Cantrell (vocals)
• William Tyler (acoustic guitar)
• Chris Scruggs (upright bass)
• Paul Niehaus (pedal steel guitar)
• Fats Kaplin (fiddle)
• Paul Burch (fender rhodes)
• Ben Martin (percussion)

External links

• Official website
• Broken by Silence: Skint Records website
• Mirrors discography