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Hiro Kone - Silvercoat the Throng 3558380021537 and the gentrifying soullessness ofNew York electronic experimentalist Nicky Mao's 4th full length, Silvercoat the throng, emerged against the backdrop of lockdown, compelled by an intuitive directive: "resist the urge to fill the space." Compositionally this translated as a simmering, shadowy energy, veiled but variable, traced in a composite of strings, synthetics, rhythm, and voice. The title alludes to a poetic notion of "possibility, rescued from darkness," which aptly evokes the