Starset - Silos - Single Review

00:00:04.560 Hey dude, what's going on?
00:00:05.600 I got a cat next to me and he might put
00:00:08.160 his butthole up. I don't know. His name
00:00:11.040 is Daryl and he's just a Daryl.
00:00:13.519 There's probably viewers for that. So,
00:00:15.120 if it if it happens, it happens.
00:00:16.640 Yeah. Cue the banjo, I guess. So, what
00:00:19.600 are we talking about? Not a banjo. We're
00:00:21.039 not talking about banjo.
00:00:22.160 No, far from it today. Well, let's talk
00:00:23.920 about Silos, the new single from Star
00:00:26.000 Set.
00:00:26.800 It's the Dustin Bates show to me. Um,
00:00:29.920 there's a lot to hear. So, Dustin Bates,
00:00:32.640 uh, Ron Dechant is the basist, Brock
00:00:35.280 Richards is guitarist, Adam Gilbert,
00:00:37.680 drummer, Siobhan Cronin, violinist,
00:00:40.640 Zuzanna,
00:00:44.960 Zuzanna Engova, Celist, and Corey Juba,
00:00:49.360 the guitarist. And that one, that
00:00:51.520 guitarist seems to be a fairly recent
00:00:53.920 hire. Well, I think they the the core
00:00:56.079 band are the first four guys that you
00:00:58.399 mentioned, Dustin, Ron, Brock, and Adam.
00:01:00.640 And then they have some others that come
00:01:02.000 on for their tour cycles. Yeah. Which is
00:01:04.159 probably necessary for these guys
00:01:05.920 because it is a their sound is huge.
00:01:09.119 It's a big sound. And and Dustin Bates
00:01:11.760 seems like the maestro, if you will, of
00:01:14.880 the band. And silos is the eb and flow
00:01:17.759 of melody and brutality and trading off
00:01:22.159 with each other and a big earworm chorus
00:01:24.479 in the middle which is pretty cool.
00:01:36.240 the only
00:01:40.880 way.
00:01:42.880 Again, to use the term maestro, uh
00:01:45.680 Dustin Bates is in the center of all of
00:01:48.000 that playing keyboards, singing one
00:01:50.240 second and then the next second just
00:01:52.479 singing like not Cookie Monster, but a
00:01:54.960 cool Cookie Monster.
00:01:56.240 Yeah. Yeah. His his his gutturals and
00:01:58.159 growls are are great. How can we make
00:02:02.320 this paritite
00:02:06.880 if you keep getting
00:02:11.120 he's really a jack of all trades when it
00:02:12.959 comes to vocals. In fact, he's seems to
00:02:15.120 be a jack of all trades when it comes to
00:02:16.959 a lot of different instruments for that
00:02:18.720 matter being, as you said, he's the
00:02:20.319 maestro. He's sort of the brain
00:02:21.760 brainchild behind all of it. They've
00:02:23.920 been doing this since 2013, I think, out
00:02:26.319 of Ohio here in the States.
00:02:28.319 Yeah. And they've got Yeah. Yeah.
00:02:30.879 They've got something cool, man. They
00:02:32.400 really do. Uh, a lot of EDM electronica
00:02:35.680 mixed in there, which is a tall order.
00:02:38.080 It's hard to do that successfully. I
00:02:40.080 know because I've tried it. And I, you
00:02:42.000 know, I'm I'm illequipped to try a lot
00:02:43.760 of stuff, but I've tried it. And I It's
00:02:45.599 a There's a There's an art to blending
00:02:48.319 those two styles of music and having it
00:02:50.560 sound polished and finished and and
00:02:53.519 right. And these guys have figured it
00:02:55.599 out perhaps along with their their
00:02:57.519 production team. But this song is loaded
00:03:01.440 with production ear candy, man. Like one
00:03:04.159 of my favorite parts of the song and
00:03:05.680 it's a little tiny thing, but one of my
00:03:07.280 favorite parts is right before the end.
00:03:09.360 It's sort of this like w and then cycles
00:03:13.120 through one four more bars and that's
00:03:14.640 it. But I love those little things and
00:03:17.280 Star Set is is great with that sort of
00:03:19.599 thing. Dustin describes them as
00:03:21.360 cinematic rock, a cinematic metal, and I
00:03:24.080 think that's that's pretty accurate. You
00:03:25.760 know, they've got you listen to their
00:03:27.360 stuff and it feels like you're listening
00:03:29.200 to it on a very wide stage, you know,
00:03:31.280 mentally. Anyway,
00:03:32.239 yeah, some people might take this as an
00:03:34.159 insult, but for me, they were almost
00:03:35.840 like the 30 Seconds of Mars for Prague
00:03:38.319 and old 30 Seconds to Mars when they
00:03:40.400 were much more cinematic. You know, the
00:03:42.400 song from yesterday had a big singalong
00:03:45.040 chorus and a cinematic experience with
00:03:47.680 the video, but again, it's not it's not
00:03:50.000 meant as an insult. It's meant as, you
00:03:52.480 know, a positive thing. I mean, say what
00:03:54.000 you will about Jared Leto. He's a pretty
00:03:55.840 talented guy. He's getting into trouble
00:03:57.599 now for being in inappropriate. Maybe
00:03:59.840 not. Maybe, you know, he is not guilty
00:04:01.760 yet. But that being said, this band is
00:04:04.799 very dynamic. There is a lot to hear.
00:04:07.360 And if you're just a person looking for
00:04:09.519 knuckle dragging gore with their metal,
00:04:12.319 this is not it. If you're looking for
00:04:14.159 something that is a gamut of emotions
00:04:16.399 and a gamut of sound, you're probably
00:04:18.478 going to be pretty happy.
00:04:19.600 Mhm. They don't really genre hop like
00:04:23.040 some other bands do in that you've got
00:04:25.840 progressive metal here and then you go
00:04:27.360 into, you know, cowboy jangle here and
00:04:29.120 then into blues or anything like that.
00:04:30.720 But the layering of all the different
00:04:32.720 styles that they employ, I think is
00:04:35.520 really cool. Like I was saying earlier,
00:04:37.360 I I think a lot of it has to do with
00:04:38.880 good production and the ability of a uh
00:04:41.440 of, you know, studio rats to go in there
00:04:43.840 and know where certain elements need to
00:04:46.160 sit in the mix for it to work. You know,
00:04:48.400 I hear a lot of, and I could be way off
00:04:50.160 base with this, but I hear a lot of, you
00:04:52.400 know, layered synths that are doubling
00:04:54.400 guitar parts and things like that, and
00:04:55.919 they really thicken it out, but it's not
00:04:57.919 super obvious that you're hearing those
00:04:59.759 two layers because they've done it well.
00:05:01.520 And yeah, so if if you like electronica,
00:05:04.400 maybe not EDM necessarily, you know,
00:05:07.120 with a,
00:05:09.280 you know, kind of kind of music, but
00:05:11.840 it's it's a great blending. Yeah, like
00:05:13.360 you said, if you're looking for pure
00:05:14.560 knuckle dragging, this ain't it. But if
00:05:16.560 you like a little flavor of a lot of
00:05:18.320 different stuff, this is a great track.
00:05:20.160 And hopefully there's been murmurings
00:05:22.560 over the last year or so that there is
00:05:24.160 an album or an EP coming, a full album
00:05:26.639 by these guys this year in 2025.
00:05:29.919 But there seems to be a consensus online
00:05:31.759 too that it may just be what a lot of
00:05:33.600 artists are doing these days, which is
00:05:35.039 just dropping singles every, you know,
00:05:36.880 couple of months and then not really
00:05:38.720 packaging it as an album. So, we'll see.
00:05:40.880 We'll see what's coming, but I I'm
00:05:42.400 looking forward to hearing more. Did you
00:05:44.160 uh did you by chance hear their cover of
00:05:46.400 um of Head Over Heels by Tears for
00:05:49.120 Fears?
00:05:50.080 No, I will certainly check it out.
00:05:52.080 It's good. They they dropped it sort of
00:05:54.160 after dropping a series of of singles
00:05:56.080 over the last couple of months, but they
00:05:58.160 they released it in May, I think, to
00:06:00.960 coincide with the 40th anniversary of
00:06:03.120 the original being released by Tears for
00:06:05.199 Fears. And it's really good, man. They
00:06:08.160 do a nice their own version of it. The
00:06:10.479 chorus is kind of similar, but the rest
00:06:12.000 of it definitely has the Star Set stamp
00:06:14.560 put on it. And it got me wondering
00:06:16.400 again, we've talked about this before,
00:06:18.160 when a band covers another known song,
00:06:21.039 what's your take? Do you want to hear a
00:06:22.639 faithful version of the original or do
00:06:25.199 you want to hear that band's that band's
00:06:27.199 take on it?
00:06:27.840 I'm happy with either. If the original
00:06:30.160 is they're trying to replicate it, then
00:06:32.560 great. If they're trying to make it
00:06:34.000 their own, that's great, too. I mean,
00:06:35.520 you're asking the guy that loves typo
00:06:37.120 negative and they took Summer Breeze and
00:06:39.199 slowed it down and made it a real heavy
00:06:41.280 durge, you know? So, I'm fine with bands
00:06:44.800 making songs their own, speeding it up,
00:06:47.199 slowing it down, adding in different
00:06:48.880 instruments, whatever it may be. You
00:06:50.880 know, creativity is great and you know,
00:06:52.800 sometimes covering a song is the
00:06:55.199 ultimate in praise, if you will, and I
00:06:58.560 think that uh it's important for bands
00:07:00.400 to have creative expression with what
00:07:03.120 they do.
00:07:03.759 Yeah. Yeah. All right. Cool. Well, yeah,
00:07:06.080 this is uh this is good. It's a good
00:07:07.599 listen. And uh if they if they grace us
00:07:09.840 with an album, we'll come back and we'll
00:07:11.680 review uh the the thing in its entirety,
00:07:13.680 too.
00:07:14.080 Well, thanks for bringing it to the
00:07:15.520 table, but definitely worth the time and
00:07:17.280 I will keep it in my in my library.
00:07:19.440 Thanks. Sounds good. See you next time.