Emily Yacina

Remember the Silver is the debut studio album by New York by-way-of Pennsylvania musician Emily Yacina. Written over the span of two years and recorded / co-produced with Eric Littmann (Julie Byrne, GABI, Yohuna) Remember the Silver represents a fundamental shift in Yacina’s approach and method to bringing her songs into the world.

Across it’s 12 songs Silver weaves an intimate and prismatic picture of the spark of new love, the way grief clings to the spirit and the small moments where magical things still feel possible. Gone is the lo-fi home-recorded feel that long-typified Yacina’s previous work, confidently making way for a welcomed clarity that allows every corner of her first-rate songwriting to shine through.

The title Remember the Silver is lifted from a book by Dana Redfield about alien abduction where the subject uses the line as a private mantra to remind herself of how her experiences are real, despite the disbelievers around her. Similarly the songs on Silver exist as reminders of experiences throughout a life cloaked in the kind of emotional subjectivity that, when looking back, can feel almost unreal in their beauty or loneliness. They’re monuments to the complexity and the realness of love, and the beauty or isolation that can be amplified by its conditions.

(Photo Credit: Emily Yacina)

Talks

Hear First: Emily Yacina’s Remember the Silver

By Emily Yacina | December 5, 2019

Hear First: Emily Yacina’s Remember the Silver

An album premiere, plus an essay by the artist herself.

On Youth and Growth in The Bluest Star

By Emily Yacina | August 8, 2018

On Youth and Growth in The Bluest Star

How sweet it would be if we acknowledged our friendships in music as much as we did our romances.

On the Cusp of Mystery and Imagination: Angel Olsen’s Phases

By Emily Yacina | November 28, 2017

On the Cusp of Mystery and Imagination: Angel Olsen’s Phases

A love letter from one Cap-Aquarian heart to another.