Jady electrified darkness and catharsis with their elementally intense LP of genre defiance, ‘Silver’ –

Starting with an archaically spectral intro single that sounds like it could spin from Norman Bates’ turntable, Jady hurl listeners straight into their subversively experimental world with Silver, their third studio album and most audacious creative statement to date. The Columbus alt duo, Jarrett Doherty and Ashton Bergdorf, have steadily built their reputation on fearless genre-hopping and electrifying live shows across continents, and this release feels like the natural combustion point of that ascent.

Crafted during relentless touring and written with heavyweight collaborators like Curtis Peoples, Sam Tinnesz, and Erik Ron, Silver sees Jady probing at imperfection, honesty, and self-discovery with unfiltered ferocity, all while sharpening their ability to turn existential chaos into anthemic catharsis.

The record wastes no time in pulling you into its clutches. The first full track, REANIMATE, welds the visceralism of rock-licked industrial electronica to glossy pop melodies that grip your synapses with kinetically tactile energy. It barrels forward with mechanised momentum and leaves you braced for the next spiral of intensity. From there, the 14-track LP keeps shifting shape, veering through rushes of drum n bass, stark interludes of classical strings, and vocals that morph from fragile vibrato to unhinged screamo. Across it all, darkness hums as the only consistent thread, a current that electrifies the album’s beating heart.

Each track serves a deliberate purpose, free from the kind of self-satisfied avant-garde posturing that often clogs experimental music. WHITE CASKET drags alt-rap into the fold, SIPHON pulses with EBM emotivity, and TMSIDK pitches somewhere between the primal stomp of White Stripes and the anarchic bite of Die Antwoord. Then there’s LANDMINES, stripping everything back to raw emotional gravity. Through all these transformations, Jady remain unflinching in their mission to deliver catharsis through sheer volition.

Silver lands like a juggernaut’s blow to the senses, a rare example of experimentalism forged entirely in service of something human. If you love the emotive subversions  of Sleep Token, don’t sleep on this release.

Silver is now available on all major streaming platforms via this link. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast