Neu Silver Gore: “I think we’ve found a sound that nobody has heard before”
The new project from FKA twigs and Nia Archives collaborator Ethan P Flynn and the classically trained, expertly-skilled Ava Gore, there are no boundaries that Silver Gore won’t attempt to push through.
After their first Great Escape show back in May this year, Silver Gore were described by one reviewer as “weirdo-pop”. It’s a term that raises a smile from co-founders Ava Gore and Ethan P Flynn when DIY brings the phrase up today, as the pair prepare to catapult their almost undefinable sound into the spotlight with their intriguing debut EP.
Sprawling and untameable, ‘Dogs In Heaven’ shifts effortlessly between experimental art-pop (‘Forever’), emotive electronica (‘Celestial Intervention’), and sassy Europop (‘All The Good Men’). From ethereal vocal highs (‘25 Metres’) and bubblegum pop synths (‘A Scars Length’) to a fuzzy, theremin-lined title track (‘Dogs In Heaven’), Silver Gore have created an addictively unpredictable and nuanced collection of songs that refuse to stand in the same spot for even a moment.
“There was no forethought or plan,” reveals Ethan. “We just made stuff that sounded quite good and gradually it became the band.” Ava grins: “Yeah, it’s funny, we didn’t take the band seriously until after we finished the EP; we were just messing around at first. We wrote ‘All The Good Men’ about two and a half years ago but forgot about it and moved on. Then one night, randomly, we wrote ‘25 Metres’, and I guess that started the band. Even then, it was just ‘unnamed Ava-Ethan project’.”
“There was no forethought or plan.”
— Ethan P Flynn
Liberated from self-imposed restrictions - except for the determination to create six sonically standalone tracks - Silver Gore was created in snatched moments and all-night sessions at locations dotted throughout the pair’s past. “‘Celestial Intervention’ was recorded in my childhood home in Yorkshire,” Ethan reminisces, “I was trying to get some final inspiration out of it before it was sold. We basically just recorded wherever I had a home studio set up, even though a lot of the time I had to persuade Ava to write a song.”
“It’s because I knew what I was in for if I said yes!” Ava retorts. “I knew it was going to be intense all-night sessions of me lying on the floor trying to get things off my chest. It’s my first time writing songs in this way, so there was quite a lot of resistance because I was writing from the soul.”
“I’m glad that we got this done, though,” she levels, “I needed to go through this process so that I was ready to move onto the next stage. This EP is like a time capsule of emotions, but now I know that I can write different types of songs, we can create something more considered and stylised.”
The EP became a trial run for Silver Gore, to see if the magical madness translated to the masses. After festival sets at Green Man and End of the Road left those assembled clamouring for more, it’s clearer than ever that the sky’s the limit. “The EP could have been a demo reel,” Ethan posits, “but we wanted to see what works and how we fit into the wider scene.” Ava nods. “What comes next is like the EP but turbo-charged; I think we’ve found a sound that nobody has heard before.”
If ‘Dogs in Heaven’ is Silver Gore sniffing out their niche, then their next steps promise to see them truly unleashed. The end goal? Simple. “We want to be the biggest band in the world.”
‘Dogs In Heaven’ is out now via Island Records.
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As featured in the September 2025 issue of DIY, out now.
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