Silence Is Easy

{{For|the song|Silence Is Easy (song)}}

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{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}}

{{Infobox album

| name = Silence Is Easy

| type = studio

| artist = Starsailor

| cover = Silence Is Easy.png

| border = yes

| alt =

| released = 15 September 2003

| recorded =

| studio =

| genre = Post-Britpop, baroque pop

| length = 39:40

| label = EMI

| producer =

• Danton Supple
• John Leckie
• Phil Spector

| prev_title = Love Is Here

| prev_year = 2001

| next_title = On the Outside

| next_year = 2005

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Silence Is Easy

| type = Studio

| single1 = Silence Is Easy

| single1date = 1 September 2003

| single2 = Born Again

| single2date = 17 November 2003

| single3 = Four to the Floor

| single3date = 1 March 2004

}}

}}

{{Album ratings

| MC = 53/100{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/silence-is-easy/starsailor|title=Metacritic Review|publisher=Metacritic|access-date=17 April 2021}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/silence-is-easy-mw0000332552|title=AllMusic Review|publisher=AllMusic|last=Collar|first=Matt|access-date=17 April 2021}}

| rev2 = Drowned in Sound

| rev2score = 3/10{{cite web|url=https://drownedinsound.com/releases/5998/reviews/7895-|title=Drowned in Sound Review|website=Drowned in Sound|last=Dobson|first=Gareth|date=31 August 2003|access-date=17 April 2021|archive-date=17 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417070013/https://drownedinsound.com/releases/5998/reviews/7895-|url-status=dead}}

| rev3 = E! Online

| rev3score = A−{{cite web|url=https://www.eonline.com/reviews/facts/music/revid/0,1107,3133,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040919113432/https://www.eonline.com/reviews/facts/music/revid/0,1107,3133,00.html|title=E! Online Review|publisher=E!|archive-date=19 September 2004|access-date=17 April 2021}}

| rev4 = The Guardian

| rev4score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/sep/12/popandrock.shopping6|title=The Guardian Review|work=The Guardian|last=Sullivan|first=Caroline|date=12 September 2003|access-date=17 April 2021}}

| rev5 = Pitchfork

| rev5score = 4.9/10{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/7480-silence-is-easy/|title=Pitchfork Review|website=Pitchfork|last=O'Connor|first=John|date=19 November 2003|access-date=17 April 2021}}

| rev6 = Robert Christgau

| rev6score = {{rating-Christgau|dud}}{{cite web|url=http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=starsailor|title=Robert Christgau Review|publisher=Robert Christgau|access-date=17 April 2021}}

| rev7 = Rolling Stone

| rev7score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/starsailor/albums/album/295041/review/5942179/silence_is_easy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026063856/https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/starsailor/albums/album/295041/review/5942179/silence_is_easy|title=Rolling Stone Review|magazine=Rolling Stone|last=Hoard|first=Christian|date=5 February 2004|archive-date=26 October 2007|url-status=dead|access-date=17 April 2021}}

| rev8 = Slant Magazine

| rev8score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/starsailor-silence-is-easy/|title=Slant Magazine Review|work=Slant Magazine|last=Cinquemani|first=Sal|date=15 December 2003|access-date=17 April 2021}}

| rev9 = Uncut

| rev9score = {{Rating|1|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/starsailor-silence-is-easy-20549/|title=Uncut Magazine Review|work=Uncut|date=1 October 2003|access-date=17 April 2021}}

|}}

Silence Is Easy is the second studio album by English indie rock group Starsailor, released in September 2003 on EMI Records. The album cover is loosely based on Echo & the Bunnymen's Heaven Up Here. The song "Some of Us" was featured in an episode of Bones titled "A Boy in a Bush"{{Cite web |url=http://www.fox.com/bones/features/music/season1.htm |title=Bones Music season 1 |access-date=3 November 2007 |archive-date=22 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022043952/http://www.fox.com/bones/features/music/season1.htm |url-status=dead }} and in the closing credits of the Belgian film The Memory of a Killer (a.k.a. The Alzheimer Case). The album contains some of the last productions by Phil Spector before his murder conviction and imprisonment in 2009, and before his death in 2021 ("Silence Is Easy" and "White Dove"). The album sold 54,296 copies in its opening week of release, charting at No. 2 on the UK Albums Chart. It was certified gold in the UK in 2003.