NIALL MUTTER’S DEBUT LP, SILVER, OUT NOVEMBER 7
VIA LIGHTER THAN AIR / NICE GUYS
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Montreal-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Niall Mutter continues to sculpt the in-between as a comfortable resting space for himself, often rocking unsureness like a trusted pair of boots. Lightweight liquid riffs pair with beached out vocals, disguising what he really feels with a groove-infused suspension.
His lucid approach to songwriting and minimalist production style weaves in threads from traditional root pop songs. Asserting presence and dissonance at the same time, his contemporary take becomes a dream-like pastiche of country and indie alternative.
Recently, Mutter announced the upcoming release of his debut LP, Silver, due out November 7, 2025 via Lighter Than Air / Nice Guys. Today, he shares another new single from the album, “Jenny Said”, an indie, roots-pop gem built for sun-soaked road trips, which was the last song written for the album. “It’s about a love chase — all the glimmer and charm of having your hands tied, with nowhere to go but to plunge into the unknown and like it for what it’s worth,” says Mutter. “Holding on to fragments of what’s been said, just to keep lassoing after the desire.”
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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