Rip Silo
A lifelong side hustle through music.
What started out as a safe space to explore music, eventually shaped a world of songs to write through the arc of a creative journey. A private passion project that kept growing, to the point it needed to be set free.
Hydro
Hydro is the debut album. A Rip Silo origin story, flooded conceptually through the many forms and shapes of water. A 44 minute dip beneath the surface, riding crooked hooks and heavy drums, soaked in synthesizers.
Better
“Water has long been hailed as a wizard of change, a giver of life, and an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists. In his debut album Hydro, Toby Castle-Smith, the creative force behind RIP SILO, explores this potent metaphor through the lens of the human soul’s tumultuous nature. Rather than relying on the clichéd symbols of purification and baptism, Castle-Smith launches the album with an arresting imagery of collapsing ice columns, setting a tone of relentless natural power that courses throughout the 42-minute experience of synthpop reverence.”
— Kaltblut Magazine on Hydro