Silver Silver

Audio Mixer: Dan Long.Photographers: Grandpa George; Grandma Mary Jane.Simone White clearly felt like taking a different creative path on her fourth album, and no one can accuse her of being shy about exploring new avenues on Silver Silver. The warm, homespun sound of White's previous work is gone, replaced by a spare, atmospheric tone dominated by electronics and ghostly percussion accents, as organic instruments punctuate the tracks without puncturing the cool, spectral atmosphere conjured up by producers Samuel Bing and Julian Wass of Fol Chen. (Bing and Wass also played the bulk of the instruments on Silver Silver and helped White compose all but two of the songs.) White has also eased back on the seemingly willful naiveté that dominated I Am the Man and Yakiimo; Silver Silver doesn't reflect a radically different viewpoint from White's pervious work, but if the messages have only changed so much, these songs are less immediately playful and more emotionally mature, meshing with th