CLOTH announce new album Pink Silence

Out April 25th on Rock Action

Featuring contributions from Portishead’s Adrian Utley, Owen Pallett, and Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite

Watch the video for new single ‘Golden’ HERE

UK headline tour dates and shows supporting Mogwai on sale now

Cloth | Photo credit: Sandra Ebert

Glasgow-based twin-sibling duo Cloth (Rachael and Paul Swinton) are today announcing their new album Pink Silence for release on April 25th via Rock Action. Also shared today is new single, ‘Golden‘.

Produced by Ali Chant (Perfume Genius, PJ Harvey, Yard Act), the album news comes after the band shared 2024 single ‘Polaroid‘, their first new music since the release of their acclaimed and Scottish Album Of The Year Award nominated 2023 album for Rock Action, Secret Measure.

The pair’s feather-light approach and intrinsic quiet drama remain fundamentals of the Cloth sound on Pink Silence. A daring rhythmic streak combined with the patience and restraint to let the space in their music do the talking persists, however with producer Ali Chant at the helm – and with a cast of collaborators that includes Portishead’s Adrian Utley, Owen Pallett, and Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite – their exemplary guitar interplay is adorned with synth flourishes, undulating drone textures, and strings. Together, the group’s intentional subtlety is elevated to lofty new heights as songs unfold and bloom, becoming rich, complex and emotional. Pink Silence is the sound of Cloth realising the growing pop streak that they’ve long-threatened to bring to the fore, full of the kind of rewarding ruminations that continue to make them such an engaging prospect. New single ‘Golden’ grips, hypnotises and thrums, vividly capturing how it feels to experience a relationship falling apart.

Paul Swinton comments on the new single: “I remember writing the main chorus guitar hook of this song, Rachael adding a chord accompaniment, and me saying to her “this songs needs to sound like Talking Heads!” I think that plan of action maybe got a bit lost along the way, but it’s still one of the album’s most musically upbeat moments, with a great hi-hat-driven beat in the chorus and a bridge which might be my favourite of any Cloth song. The song deals with the tough breakdown of a relationship, and the feeling of that loss being so difficult to reconcile with you’d rather have never fallen in love at all. There’s a line in the song, ‘that scar on my wall, where all of those photographs remembered us falling” which came from me staring at my bedroom wall and seeing the faint outlines – the ‘scars’ – of where photos of really meaningful memories used to be stuck on. That seemed to me to be a really powerful image, even though, in a sense, there’s nothing to look at anymore.”

On Pink Silence, a more instinctual approach to writing was adopted. They wanted to let the songs be what they were going to be, rather than pulled into a certain shape. The results feel absorbing and natural, fitting rather well with what the band wanted to draw from the title Pink Silence. They say: “This idea of pink silence describes the early morning or later in the evening, when you get this sort of strange ethereal light in the sky. It can mean one of two things; something which feels blissfully serene or something charged with a real sense of foreboding. We loved the idea that something so natural, beautiful and all-pervasive could have such an intense duality to it.”

Pre-order Pink Silence HERE

Hear ‘Golden’ on streaming services here and watch the video below.

Cloth will also be heading out on a UK headline tour through March, bookended by shows opening for Mogwai. Tickets are on sale now here.

Cloth – 2025 tour dates

February 20th – O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK **
February 22nd – O2 Academy, Leeds, UK **
February 23rd – Usher Hall, Edinburgh, UK **
March 4th – Forum, Tunbridge Wells, UK
March 5th – Boiler Room, Guildford, UK
March 6th – Esquires, Bedford, UK
March 7th – The Gregson Community & Arts Centre, Lancaster, UK
March 8th – Sugarmill, Stoke, UK
March 10th-17th – SXSW, USA
March 22nd – Mac Arts Centre, Galashiels, UK
March 29th – Tunnels, Aberdeen, UK
May 17th – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow, UK **

** = Supporting Mogwai