Meet Silver Gore, the electro pop duo on a mission to bring back fun
The duo of Ava Gore and Ethan P. Flynn are on a mission to create fun electro earworms that, once heard, you'll struggle to get out of your brain...
By Nick Reilly
“We just want people to have a good time listening to our music and to feel triumphant and energised,” affirms Ava Gore, one half of Silver Gore.
Gore and her bandmate and IRL partner Ethan P. Flynn are making tunes that go far in proving that mantra to be only too true. Their debut EP, 2025’s Dogs in Heaven, saw drums and guitars colliding against electronic sounds that felt like they could be primed to bring back a revival of noughties electro pop. There’s shades of all the bands you probably donned some form of neon clothing to go and see, but a slight taste of MGMT’s Oracular Spectacular highs is only matched by their love of that aforementioned band.
Though brilliant and accomplished musicians in their own right through a variety of past projects, it’s the pair’s union as Silver Gore that promises to be their most exciting outing yet…
Read our interview with Silver Gore and listen to their music via our Play Next playlist on Spotify below.
Just before we started recording, you said you’re almost in album mode…
Ethan: Yeah, we’ve recorded an album, and we’re waiting to finish it, and then we’ve just been working on some songs that we’re gonna put out in the meantime, basically. And then we’ve been playing live a bit.
What’s the backstory. How did Silver Gore come to be?
Ava: We were friends for a while and I was, am still am, a massive fan of Ethan’s solo music. He was talking about getting a live band together for that, and then he was like, Ava, you’re a drummer. It was my dream because I already knew all the songs, but I couldn’t let him know that. We’d do rehearsals and I’d just have to pretend I didn’t know how bits went.
Ethan, you’re well known as a producer and in your own right. Why did the time feel right for this group?
Ethan: It wasn’t really like a big plan. It was more just like me and Ava were spending a lot of time together because we lived together. We ended up making some music and decided to take it seriously. But it took quite a long time between that conversation and getting our EP together to do it. It was a slow process but it’s cool. It’s really fun.
What’s the creative partnership like between you two? Easier when mates, perhaps?
Ava: It is good because we can be really more efficient in a way that like if something’s not very good we can just move on. We don’t have to like beat around the bush if something’s not very good. In the studio together there’s a lot of storming out and actually crying recently. I made Ethan cry actually.
What did you do?
Ethan: We were recording this song, and Ava asked if we should do this different voice thing for the chorus. We did it and it took a long time to sound right because I’m quite a purist when it comes to recording and I wanted it to be an unedited guitar take. The next day we we decided to change it and she made me do it again! I had already been working very hard and I think that was a good moment for me to cry. But that’s not common.
A lot of people I’ve spoken to have said that they maybe wouldn’t be able to work with their partner but we kind of love it. The second we leave the studio, we’re just having fun.
Who do you consider to be the sonic touch points for Silver Gore?
Ava: I would say MGMT. They’re probably actually my favourite band ever, but I think they have so much variety as well in their music. Each album is so different and that’s been a big thing for me.
Ethan: Magnetic Fields as well. Stephin Merritt does a lot of electronic music with modular synths and stuff, but it just doesn’t get in the way of the songwriting, if you know what I mean. He’s so techy with that stuff and he’s a real efficient musician.
What does a Silver Gore live show look like?
Ethan: Well, the songs are in some senses so multilayered, and I think for a lot of people that could be like a challenge to do that live.
Ava: It’s just like we’re trying to have a good time, because we can’t exactly recreate the music exactly, but if we have fun and get the energy of the musical craft right, then it seems to be working properly.
Ethan: We’ve been working on a live show for a while because we signed our record deal before we’d ever played a show and it was just karaoke vibes with a track for a while. But we’ve just been relying on having a really good time and trying to get that energy across. We could sit there scratching our heads about how we can make this music live, but the music is fun and if we have fun playing it’s just going to work.
Ava That’s the main thing. We just want people to have a good time listening to our music and to feel triumphant and energised. I’m always thinking about what makes me feel really good or really crazy when I listen to a song and then I’m like let’s put that in there.
And finally, Silver Gore in a word…
Both: Gory!