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“Silence Is Golden” by The Beths
From the album Expert in a Dying Field (2022)
“Silence Is Golden” by The Beths appears on 6 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2022 and 2025. It was first released in 2022 on the album Expert in a Dying Field. Its best result is #73 on The Current Top 89 Songs of 2022. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #536 alternative song of 2022.
"Silence Is Golden" comes from Expert in a Dying Field, the third album from New Zealand indie rockers the Beths, out on Carpark in September 2022. Elizabeth Stokes wrote it, and the band arranged it together: Stokes and Jonathan Pearce on guitars, Pearce adding keyboards, Benjamin Sinclair on bass and Tristan Deck on drums, with all four of them singing. Pearce produced, engineered and mixed it, sharing the mix with Bevan Smith, and Stokes picked up an additional production credit.
The album was met with wide acclaim, and Pitchfork's Laura Snapes heard shades of Aimee Mann's casual skill and the cheer of Superchunk and Fountains of Wayne in its smart power-pop.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 92 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2022 | 103 |
| 2022 | 73 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2022 | 89 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 327 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2024 | 934 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2025 | 764 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
| 2025 | 607 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
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