Interlay announce EP Snow Covers Your Insides and share lead single "Silo"

Chicago's Interlay have announced their third EP, Snow Covers Your Insides, and released its lead single, "Silo." The band deals in a noise-caked strain of melodic post-hardcore that leans close enough to shoegaze for listeners to file it either way, with dramatic falsetto vocals sitting on top of the wall of guitars.

The record takes inspiration from the work of Sylvia Plath. "Silo" came out of a personal memory belonging to singer-guitarist Alexandria Ortgiesen, who described the track as a song about loneliness rooted in a night spent awake until dawn on a friend's farm with someone she loved, watching smoke, haze and fog settle over the property.

Ortgiesen also pointed to the studio work behind the song. She said she is proud of using a Leslie on the recording and talked about looking for ways to fold noise and feedback into layered guitar parts, calling that approach a defining part of her identity as a guitarist.

Snow Covers Your Insides collects four tracks: "Silo," "Reaching For My Revolver," "Plastic Stars" and "fIREHOSE." The grandiose, doom-laden tone of the single places Interlay near touchstones such as Sunny Day Real Estate's How It Feels To Be Something On and the most melodramatic end of Knifeplay, both familiar reference points in the overlap between emo, shoegaze and post-hardcore.