‘Beautifully Awkward’ is a beautifully crafted musical storytelling of Silver Dawn’s rumination on life in relationship with self-awareness and waking up to self-love. A recent revelation left me a little shaken. I realised that, ‘Not only are we born to learn from life, but we are born among those from whom we learn.’ This bolt of knowing that my body resonated with was new to the mind, and thus had an emotional aftermath. Silver Dawn’s latest EP resonates deeply with this experience. It is especially the eighth song on the list, ‘I can’t believe the things that I do’, that encapsulated my understanding completely.
The realisation dawned that it is the relationships closest to us which are usually the ones that make us feel judged, unloved, irritated, and even angry. And thus, it is here, among these relationships, that we get to know who we are. No matter how weird and misfitting, we learn to love that about ourselves. Accepting and falling in love with our beautifully awkward selves is how I perceived Dawn’s new EP, ‘Beautifully Awkward’.
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After reading a couple of Silver’s interviews, it became clear that the echoes of her soul-searching journey shaped this EP. This honesty is exactly the reason it resonates with the listeners. This EP is a portrait drawn from the painstakingly lonely journey of turning inwards. As the light of awareness enters the dark/ unconscious spaces, the traveller has to patiently and persistently hold space for oneself. And what comes out of that pain is art. Sounds that carry messages of the soul. Words that carry wisdom from the transmutation. Songs of ‘Beautifully Awkward’ are a testament to that.
Silver’s sound has been fostered since her childhood. Her music is shaped by the memories of her physicist father’s collection of vinyl and eclectic recordings. She arrives with questions and a deep willingness to sit inside uncertainty. Her curiosity in music was mathematical in nature; it was to learn the semantics of vibration in time. This led her to study jazz and composition at the London College of Music. Raised in an urban jungle, the concrete walls of her surroundings sharpened her sensitivity, rather than dulling it. Her work mirrors the jaggedness of a city’s rigid systems by being confrontational and raw, while also carrying the soft, fragile, philosophical artist within her.
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The EP opens with ‘The Tune’, whose sounds and texture embalm the dissonance in life. The imbalance between what it is and what was perceived. The next, ‘I Think Therefore I Am’, follows like a quiet affirmation. ‘Memory Hole’, with the most interesting sound and voice texture, pulls us down a sonic rabbit hole. ‘Tidal Wave’ unfolds symbolically, offering an experience that I’m sure many will relate to. ‘Face It’ presents a realistic take on the hardships of life, accompanied by the monotonous obviousness of the struggle. The title track, ‘Beautifully Awkward’, marks the spiritual awakening of all the songs, the realisations of the awkwardness of self, and the love that pours right in, making the entire experience very sassy.
As the EP nears its end, I leave the final two tracks for you to discover. ‘Beautifully Awkward’ belongs to all the edge-dwellers and the sensitive ones. It is for the misfits and the misunderstood. Follow Silver Dawn’s journey on Instagram and X, and listen to her music on Spotify and YouTube.
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