The Silent Comedy 'Enemies Multiply'

For a few years, Joshua Zimmerman couldn’t bring himself to listen to his band’s most recent album. Enemies Multiply – the Silent Comedy LP he and Jeremiah, his brother and longtime bandmate, had written and recorded several years ago. Born of a rough patch in the Zimmerman brothers’ personal and professional lives, listening to it felt like rubbing salt in healed wounds. Despite the brothers collectively viewing the album as some of their best work in the decade-plus they’d been a band, the project was shelved.

Then the 2016 election happened. Joshua notes, “At this particular moment in U.S. history I felt like a lot more people could take comfort in the songs than ever before." Jeremiah concurred: “For the first time ever I just want people to hear it and have it.”

Recorded in Austin, Texas, Enemies Multiply is sonically a big-boned, bruising affair. The album includes hard hitters like the rocking "No Saints Forgiven," bluesy “Sharks Smell Blood,” the ominous "Light Of Day," and current single “Avalanche” which centers around sizzling guitar and church organ. 

But Enemies Multiply isn't limited to searing hard core rockers. Highlighting the band's versatility is "Break It Slow" a dangerously catchy 90's pop-rocker with frank lyrics - "the love that were chasing is a ghost/if you break my heart break it slow/don't hold me and raise my hopes," - a thumping percussive beat, and soaring chorus; and personal favorite, the emotional “Peace of Mind.” A harmonica accented, harmony filed, folk ballad, "Peace of Mind" closes out Enemies Multiply offering a sense of comfort and hope in knowing you're not not alone in hard times.

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