“CHANCE OF SHOWERS” begins as harmless as ice cream truckmusic. Found on Flash of Light, a recent 7-inch by local trio Silk Flowers, it’s a B-side that designs an uncomplicated melody—a springy synth riff pistons forward, burns out like a sparkler, retreats and returns to its original cue—and repeats it enough times to lodge itself in your brain.The only element behind the loop is a Morse code drumbeat. It grows frustratingly addictive: Why is something so simple, so inoffensive compelling me to stay with it? Continue listening and, over the song’s four minutes and 20 seconds, the melody can be identified at least 38 times.

Then changes appear. After the two-minute mark, a wave of fuzz slowly rises. As the pulse increases to a climax of loudness, it washes over everything else, leaving the original pattern behind.The track closes with doomed, overarching clatter, a cloudy nightmare. This was no fluke. Indeed, the repetition in “Chance” and its kin are central to the Silk Flowers approach, turning their material into what band member Aviram Cohen dubs “trance-inducing.”While plenty of electronic music attempts to squeeze as many effects and outbursts as possible into a song while keeping it coherent, Silk Flowers takes the opposite angle: simplicity above all, even using digital instruments. “Making something a bit more spare and smallsounding rather than rich or big just appeals to me,” he says. “We live in a world that’s so hectic because there’s so much information to absorb every day.We try to consider that when we write songs.We thought we’d make a band about having less information.”

That is entirely why “Chance” evokes an ice cream truck’s soundtrack—it’s easy to become comfortable and familiar with a wiry jingle—and how Silk Flowers succeeds when it decides to up the moodiness.The jarring interplay between hypnotic minimalism and changed rhythms is apparent in other songs: “Flash of Light” juxtaposes staccato throbs with a beastly, slurred voice, and “Frost” transitions from tranquil tones into a gathering storm.

Silk Flowers originated after the disbanding of the jazz-oriented Soiled Mattress and The Springs. Flowers came together in spring of 2008, spent the summer writing songs and first played together in September.

“We knew we all wanted to work more electronically,” notes Cohen.Working with Peter Schuette on keyboards (“That was the foundation”), the instrumental scope expanded.

“Ethan [Swan] originally used cassette tapes and made noises out of loops,” Cohen says. “When I do more experimental stuff over the years, it involves an Echoplex and a tone generator.

It’s more like a hodgepodge of different vintage effects. Because we wanted to be more of an electronic band, I converted to a drum pad instead of a full acoustic kit.” To prepare for the recording process, Silk Flowers tapes all practices and culls the finest portions. “If there was a minute where we really hit upon something, we isolate that and try to write other things around that,” he says. All of the outfit’s work is currently contained within two 7-inch records and a self-titled full-length released in July. The group’s part-delicate, part-sinister style comes from a trait shared among the members. “We’re all at the end of our twenties,” says Cohen. “A lot of ideas of the band reflect that and that’s why [the music] tends to have a bittersweet quality.”

Cohen finds Silk Flowers’ inspirations arriving from all directions. He uses 1950s and ‘60s music as a spiritual template for his distorted vocals and some of the group’s drum structures, and mentions the experimental German catchall genre called Krautrock. “We take a lot of cues in terms of the minimal repetition—small sounds that happen again and again,” he says. Of course, as with most electronic projects, the ‘80s play a major factor.

“There are definite ‘80s influences,” he admits, citing Depeche Mode and The Human League.Thankfully, while Flowers benefits from incorporating the unlikely, there are some places where their music won’t roam. “It’s not ‘80s in the way Madonna is or anything.We don’t go too far.”

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