Last fall The Reeler's S.T. VanAirsdale put out a call to film bloggers for The Totally Unrelated Blog-a-Thon, a chance for film entrenched writing junkies to step out of their celluloid analytical mindsets and just explore the great wide world of arts and life. This year, in a nod to VanAirsdale's project, SM caught up with indie folk pop traverser Josh Epstein, songwriter and vocalist of The Silent Years, a band which released sophomore LP tour de force The Globe on August 26.
Jokingly, the members of The Silent Years say that the band's name came out of time spent in mime school. "It's one of those things that we think it's funny, so we don't ever say, 'No,'" explains songwriter and vocalist Josh Epstein. "I don't know how it came up, but I think it's hilarious. One time someone asked me to show them some [mime], and I actually had to mime a bunch of stuff. It was ridiculous."
Although reference to the term 'The Silent Years' also conjures thoughts about the lost years of writing between the Old and New Testaments, the story of the band name origin is perhaps even more meaningful, although much like that first reference, Epstein's too is about lost years:
