SILVERCHAIR Signs With WMG's INDEPENDENT LABEL GROUP

May 29, 2007

Australian trio SILVERCHAIR has signed on with Warner Music Group's Independent Label Group to release its fifth studio album, "Young Modern", in North America on July 24, 2007. The album will come out on Eleven: a music company, in association with Warner Music Group.

The band is already confirmed for a mainstage appearance on Lollapalooza, Saturday August 3 in Chicago and they have plans for a full North American tour this July and August. Dates will be announced shortly. While they played a handful of acclaimed, sold-out shows in New York, LA and Toronto earlier this year, the forthcoming dates will be the group's first full tour of the U.S. and Canada since 1999.

"Young Modern" is SILVERCHAIR's first album of new material in over five years. The disc is the fastest seller of their incredible career to date, having been certified double platinum in Australia in less than a month. Its lead track, "Straight Lines", has become the group's biggest hit since their 1995 breakthrough, "Tomorrow", racking up a month at #1 on the Aussie singles charts. The album is the follow up to 2002's cult classic, "Diorama", which saw SILVERCHAIR embracing melody and orchestral flourishes and combining it all with brighter, more surreal lyrics. It was a huge creative leap whose Stateside release was impeded by an arthritic condition that prevented Daniel Johns from touring or doing any promotion until a year after its U.S. release. "Young Modern" picks up where "Diorama" left off, expanding the band's sound even further by combining an infectious blend of melodic indie rock with eclectic pop sensibilities.

On "Young Modern", lead singer/guitarist Daniel Johns shared the producer role with Nick Launay (MIDNIGHT OIL, ARCADE FIRE, TALKING HEADS) who had helmed earlier SILVERCHAIR albums "Freak Show" and "Neon Ballroom". "Diorama" producer David Bottrill was brought in as mixer. Paul Mac was again on hand for keyboard duties as he was with the group's two previous albums and legendary BEACH BOYS collaborator Van Dyke Parks reprised his "Diorama" role penning orchestrations for three songs which were recorded in Prague with an 80-piece orchestra.

"It took me a long time to realize that the sound Ben, Chris and I make when we play my songs is something special", says SILVERCHAIR frontman Daniel Johns. "I've been thinking a lot since we finished the album about were this fits into the other stuff we've done. The way I see it the first album was all about naivety, the second one was anger, the third one was depression and the last one was escapism. 'Young Modern' is all about acceptance. It's about embracing who we are as band and just really enjoying ourselves. Hopefully listening to this album will make other people feel what we feel when we play these songs together because I've finally figured out that that's a very special feeling."

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