Diana Silvers has perfected the art of turning the ephemeral into a compelling story. A creative firestorm, she is used to telling other tales through films like Booksmart and on runways for brands like Celine, but music is her chance to share her inner narrative. From Another Room is her own story through sound.
Just dropped on November 7th, Silvers’ new album is the latest in Capitol Records’ folk-singer lineup. The EP follows her two singles, June and Airplane. The singer produced and wrote both singles herself, ensuring that her own hands and heart left her emotional DNA in every beat.
June is especially intimate, using lyrics that crack open a personal relationship enough for a listener to feel as if they’re in earshot of Silvers’ private voicemails. Using sound as her north star, she adds to her stories note by note. She shared some of her process with IINAG in conversation:
Kendra Brea Cooper: June is such an emotionally unguarded song, automatically making it relatable and sincere. How important is vulnerability to your songwriting process?
Diana Silvers: I mean, it’s everything. I feel like it is the time when I am really honest, because I’m not concerned with how it’s going to be perceived, you know what I mean? An hour before this (interview) I wrote a song, because I was feeling something and thinking about something. I was at my friend’s house, and she has a ukulele (they have a lot of instruments), and I was feeling compelled to play it now. I feel like I learned something about how I was feeling because the melody leads to these words almost like a baby. You know when a baby is learning how to talk and express itself? It’s like sounds come before words, and sounds are what carry the feeling more than the actual words themselves. I feel like, through songwriting, it is that practice. I’m being brutally honest with myself, for myself, so I can understand myself better. And then release it out.
You can now hear Diana Silvers release it live on tour with Jon Batiste on The Big Money Tour across North America. Most shows are completely sold out, so don’t wait!
