I’ve heard of Silverchair in the past, but never took the time to check them out until now; they are an Australian Alternative Rock band from Newcastle, New South Wales. The song I chose to share is “Israel’s Son”, first released as a single in 1995. The song uses a mixture of chordophones, membranophones and idiophones in its composition; it’s polyphonic, made of distorted guitars, bass, drums, and vocals. I really enjoyed how the distortion in the guitars pushes a biting timbre across the entire song. In this instrumental section around 2:30 the guitars hit these harmonics which aren’t always in the same scale, but share a rhythm and push a moody energy throughout the song. Another thing I really enjoyed near the end was the drums changing tempo and speeding up, sharing this intensity furthered by the screams towards the end of the track, also paired with this phase effect in the production to propel this entrancing quality that hooks the listener. It’s also insane to think they wrote and performed this so professionally with the band being teenagers and the vocalist being only 15 years old.