Okay, it’s not a Christmas song, not in the traditional sense, but indeed a tune that is both timely and relatable given the gathering together of friends and family that we are about to experience for the next couple of weeks, a time when drink flows, old slights are unearthed and emotional chess is the name of the game. “Silent Treatment” is…well, it’s self-explanatory really, we’ve all been there, those times when miscommunication and misunderstanding resulted in the cold shoulder, as the saying goes, often with only one of the two participants knowing exactly why.
But if the lyrics discuss the silent treatment, the music speaks volumes. Fendahlene makes the sort of music that seems to have been lost along the way. With rock music seeking to become ever more clever and pop music increasingly reliant on gimmicks and repetitive, pointless lyrics, “Silent Treatment” reminds us of a style, perhaps at its height in the 80s, that took the weight and groove of rock and the infectiousness and hook of pop and paired them together—a pop-rock marriage made in heaven.
The riffs are big and bold, the dynamics fluid, the energy powers on and off as required, and the lyrics infectious. I can’t imagine that many people would not be singing along by the time the chorus comes back around for the second time.
It’s all the contagion of a Christmas song but both playable and pertinent all year round. Perfect!
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