New York electronic experimentalist Nicky Mao's fourth full-length album, 'Silvercoat The Throng', emerged against the backdrop of lockdown. Compositionally this translated as a simmering, shadowy energy, veiled but variable, traced in a composite of strings, synthetics, rhythms and vocals. Previous collaborations led to the further expanding of the album's lyrical, liminal palette, meshing elements of experimental techno, spoken word, neo-classical and industrial noise into a fluid, encrypted dialect all its own.