Exitmusic – From Silence EP

Until Boardwalk Empire, Alleksa Palladino had a pretty patchy acting CV, sprinkled with direct-to-DVD horror sequels and minor bit parts. Now, HBO and Martin Scorsese have added a more illustrious credit to a fifteen-year screen career perpetually one step away from its big break.

On the strength of From Silence, Palladino seems likely to establish herself in the music world far more efficiently, with Exitmusic already signed to Secretly Canadian and turning heads in all the important places. Together with husband Devon Church, the EP offers four promising examples of their faintly familiar but well-executed schtick, a kind of ghostly electronica existing somewhere between Zola Jesus and Austra; if they continue in this mould, there’ll be no need for leg-ups.