Toward the end of 2013, Mike Silver, aka CFCF, said in an interview that he almost felt his newest album, Outside, was “a bit too epic, like I went a bit too far.” Radiance and Submission, which was ...
CFCF was recently nominated for a Grammy—the song that got the nod is a hard-to-track-down remix of Max Richter (!?)—which is really random but also really reassuring. Someone on high is paying great ...
Michael Silver, who makes music as CFCF, has been a busy, busy man. In the past 12 months, he's released two albums, "The Colours of Life" and "Radiance and Submission"; scored an art film by Björk ...
This is one in a series of articles Radio World has published exploring the business challenges and successes of AM radio. MONTREAL — 2010 began with a sad note for radio in Quebec’s largest city as ...
Kind of a quiet week in Indie Basement but as always I’ve found a handful of things worth checking out: New Orleans group Silver Synthetic have delivered a chill stunner of a psych rock debut; CFCF ...
A few weeks ago CFCF blew our minds by playing a set of slo-mo jams at PS1. It was perfect for the weather—hot and breezy and smooth. We basically flipped out and started going around talking about ...
Here is another quality electronic release setting out to explore a specific musical era. Last month, British producer Danny L. Harle mined '90s rave styles to excellent effect on his debut LP, ...
From KCRW DJ Garth Trinidad: Montreal’s CFCF is forging a new kind of baby making music. With a production style slightly akin to German colleagues like Boozoo Bajou, CFCF’s sound is easing down the ...
Montreal producer Mike Silver, better known as CFCF, has announced a new album called Memoryland. As the title suggests, the LP was inspired by the music of Silver's earliest formative listening years ...
Exercises, a new mini-album by the Montreal musician CFCF (Mike Silver) for Toronto’s Paper Bag Records, is a masterpiece of restraint. With stately piano melodies informed by Ryuichi Sakamoto and ...
Album review: CFCF’s Exercises is carefully studded with so many beautiful details that it never feels insubstantial. CFCF’s Exercises feels like balm for bashed-about ears The title of this ...