Jackie West – Silent Century

Brooklyn singer-songwriter Jackie West announces her second album “Silent Century”, out February 27th via Ruination Record Co., and shares the title track. The follow-up to 2024’s “Close to the Mystery” continues her work combining folk melodies with pop hooks.

“Silent Century” moves between simple, steady rhythms and more expansive moments. West worked with Dan Knishkowy (Adeline Hotel), Sean Mullins (Moon Mullins), and Nico Osborne (Nicomo), recording the album live in just one week. The approach relied on improvisation and trust, with the 10-minute finale “Offer” captured in a single first take. Processed guitars and ethereal vocals create suspended textures that shift between intimate and expansive.

Lyrically, West draws on Taoist ideas about silence as a medium of understanding. She explains that some experiences, especially intimate or spiritual ones, communicate without language, moving through us like traditions or instincts that endure quietly for generations. The flower doesn’t explain itself, water doesn’t lecture the stone, yet both express and reshape the world over time.