Silence Is Easy

For the song, see Silence Is Easy (song).

Silence Is Easy
Studio album by
Starsailor
Released15 September 2003
GenrePost-Britpop, baroque pop
Length39:40
LabelEMI
Producer
Starsailor chronology
Love Is Here
(2001) 		Silence Is Easy
(2003) 		On the Outside
(2005)
Singles from Silence Is Easy
  1. "Silence Is Easy"
    Released: 1 September 2003
  2. "Born Again"
    Released: 17 November 2003
  3. "Four to the Floor"
    Released: 1 March 2004
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic53/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Drowned in Sound3/10[3]
E! OnlineA−[4]
The Guardian[5]
Pitchfork4.9/10[6]
Robert Christgau(dud)[7]
Rolling Stone[8]
Slant Magazine[9]
Uncut[10]

Silence Is Easy is the second studio album by English indie rock group Starsailor, released in September 2003 on EMI Records. The album cover is loosely based on Echo & the Bunnymen's Heaven Up Here. The song "Some of Us" was featured in an episode of Bones titled "A Boy in a Bush"[11] and in the closing credits of the Belgian film The Memory of a Killer (a.k.a. The Alzheimer Case). The album contains some of the last productions by Phil Spector before his murder conviction and imprisonment in 2009, and before his death in 2021 ("Silence Is Easy" and "White Dove"). The album sold 54,296 copies in its opening week of release, charting at No. 2 on the UK Albums Chart. It was certified gold in the UK in 2003.[12]

  1. ^ "Metacritic Review". Metacritic. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  2. ^ Collar, Matt. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  3. ^ Dobson, Gareth (31 August 2003). "Drowned in Sound Review". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  4. ^ "E! Online Review". E!. Archived from the original on 19 September 2004. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  5. ^ Sullivan, Caroline (12 September 2003). "The Guardian Review". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  6. ^ O'Connor, John (19 November 2003). "Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  7. ^ "Robert Christgau Review". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  8. ^ Hoard, Christian (5 February 2004). "Rolling Stone Review". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 26 October 2007. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  9. ^ Cinquemani, Sal (15 December 2003). "Slant Magazine Review". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  10. ^ "Uncut Magazine Review". Uncut. 1 October 2003. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  11. ^ "Bones Music season 1". Archived from the original on 22 October 2007. Retrieved 3 November 2007.
  12. ^ Cite error: The named reference BPI was invoked but never defined (see the help page).