The daughter of a chef and an dance movement therapist, Silver began making her own music at the ripe old age of thirteen. “I was such an emo kid. I had all the feelings,” she laughs. “I had a guitar teacher at the time who was a producer with a home studio. I would bring in my songs, and he would fully produce them. I have all these recordings from when I was a kid, my voice was so different then, I was so little! It’s so interesting to go back and listen to those,” she continues. “I had a mildly wild upbringing, I was on my own a lot. When I was about 14, every Tuesday night I’d go hang out in a bar that would let me run sound and watch the bands. In high school, I worked in a studio for school credit,” she adds. “I knew I just wanted to play music.
From Motown soul-esque album opener (and oldest song on the album) “Keep It Fresh” to the straight up garage fuzz of album closer “Smoking Gun,” the songs each have a unique personality, and were created over a broad expanse of time. “For ‘Smoking Gun, a newer song on the record, I tried something different,” she explains of her process. “Instead of writing ‘my feelings,’ I created a vision, I had a story in my mind like a movie, and I wanted to write the scene into a song. It came out heavier,” she says. “I wanted to play with it sonically, to make it more cinematic.”
Silver will celebrate the release of Little Thunder with a free release party on June 25th at The Roxy Hotel in New York City. “I’m so excited for the release,” she says. “I hope people can be totally in the moment with my music, that they’ll be able to forget whatever is on their minds and just be.”