NIALL MUTTER’S DEBUT LP, SILVER, OUT NOVEMBER 7
VIA LIGHTER THAN AIR / NICE GUYS
WATCH / SHARE “DIXIE DIAMOND” VISUALIZER HERE
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Today, Montreal-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Niall Mutter is releasing his debut LP, Silver, via Lighter Than Air / Nice Guys. The album is “a collection of songs mostly written and recorded over two months while living in a cottage in rural Québec,” says Mutter. “I didn’t set out to make a record—I was in a bit of a creative rut, and felt the need to get away from the city without interruption. These songs came out of that stillness. Out of silence. Out of letting go of polish and pressure, and tuning into the strange, fragile shimmer of what was beneath the surface.
“The album moves through themes of memory, grief, desire, and change—often sitting in the in-between spaces where clarity and confusion overlap. The title Silver felt right because it holds all of that: it’s reflective, a little haunted—beautiful but bruised. Silver is what’s left after the shine wears off—tarnishable, tender, but still strong.”
To help celebrate the album’s release, Mutter is also sharing the visualizer for album track “Dixie Diamond”, a song about “the pressures of performance, the way it tests you to hold things together. Set against the backdrop of an imagined dog show or a horse race the song plays with the tension between poise and dissolution- choosing to want to win or wear down.
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MORE ABOUT NIALL MUTTER AND SILVER
Following the release of his debut EP, Pass Me By, Mutter garnered acclaim among audiences. The crooning opener “Maybe” was named one of Cult MTL's top 52 songs of 2022, and the release was featured on CBC Afterdark, CBC Q, and KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic.
In 2023, he decided to retreat to a cabin in rural Quebec, setting up a home studio by the lake with his trusted TASCAM 8-track cassette recorder. He wasn’t planning to make a record—just to escape the pressures and distractions of the city. Succumbing to the wilderness and the limitations of his environment, a new honesty emerged.
Written and recorded in two months, the songs on Silver move through themes of memory, grief, desire, and personal transformation. Nature's unspoken mysteries meet wonky-carnival guitar licks, kicking the dust up at the horse track, or swimming begrudgingly through muddy waters – he abandons his so-called dreams to sequester himself and finally make sense of all the voices in his head.
“Black Water”, one of the album’s centrepieces, helped him rapture through the crust by commencing an ego-death, “there’s a strange, almost beautiful feeling in being pulled under by something bigger than you,” says Mutter. “In the water, there’s darkness, but also openness—a chance to cleanse the body.”
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The rest of the album carries the same mood of an intimate unraveling.“Silver is what’s left after the shine wears off,” Mutter says. “It’s reflective, a little haunted—tender, tarnishable, but still strong.” There’s nothing rushed here—Mutter trades production sheen for emotional resonance, embracing imperfections, tape hiss, analog warmth, and silence itself as instrumentation. The result is a rugged and vulnerable effort to get beyond himself, travelling all the way into his haunting ballad “Wanderer” where he lets everything vanish. Even as his sound matures, Mutter never loses the grounding simplicity that defines his work. The influences are easy to trace— Cutworms, Sam Burton, Sylvie—but his voice is distinctly his own. A pastoral softness in his tone, tinged with a buried existential ache: the sense that every song is trying to hold a feeling that’s already begun to slip away.
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Having performed at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal in 2022 and cultivated a growing presence on national airwaves, Mutter now stands on the cusp of something wider. With Silver, he invites us to get grounded in the ephemeral, in that reflective, flickering space, he’s made something rare—an album sitting like a hunk of silver at the bottom of the lake—hoping you’ll meet him where he’s sat.
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SILVER TRACKLIST
01 Beau Bassin
02 Black Water
03 Dixie Diamond
04 I Don’t Wanna Give You Up
05 Stink Bug
06 Wanderer
07 Poem #6
08 Jenny Said