Stream: The Silent Comedy, ‘Enemies Multiply’

Kevin Bronson on October 18th, 2018

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Five years since their last release, the “Friends Divide” EP, San Diego-bred the Silent Comedy return this week with a new album of polished vintage rock ’n’ roll. “Enemies Multiply” finds brothers Joshua and Jeremiah Zimmeran fighting mad about the state of things in the U.S. (and the rest of the world, for that matter), so they’re throwing punches in the form of ripping guitar riffs and the outsized choruses that have always turned their club shows into tent revivals.

The band attributes its hiatus to “professional and personal struggles,” and the delayed release of “Enemies Multiply” comes as the social and political climate has turned downright acrid. Leave it to the sons of missionaries to take aim at hypocrisy: “Is that fire burning / ’cause when I heard your sermon / seems you want that fire from me / Oh, you think you’re holy / don’t you find it lonely / living on that mountain peak,” they sing in “Heaven and Hell.” The title track, too, seems to have any number of rogues in mind. “For every villain posing as a saint / there’s always some liar / claiming it’s my mistake,” Jeremiah Zimmerman sings.

Here’s the Silent Comedy’s raised voices have returned with something to say.

||| Stream: “Enemies Multiply” and “Avalanche”