After three sought-after singles for the Whatever We Want label—plus remixes for the likes of Gorillaz, François K, Cosmo Vitelli and, um, The Osmonds—Quiet Village step out of the shadows to present their first full-length album, Silent Movie. Comprised of master crate-digger Joel Martin and rising dance-music star Matt Edwards (aka Radio Slave), and borrowing their name from Martin Denny's exotica masterpiece, Quiet Village make the old sound new (and vice versa). Influenced by Italian film soundtracks, BBC library music, disco edits, acid rock, vintage soul and easy listening, they smear the unlikeliest elements—bluesy guitar, chamber strings, air-raid sirens, shuffling breakbeats, even flutes and seagull cries—into an hour-long reverie with Vaseline on its lens.
