Ana da Silva is a founding member and songwriter of pioneering post-punk band The Raincoats. Across four daring albums, The Raincoats helped shape the timeless notion that punk is what you make it to be - an act of raw expression, not any one sound. They set a crucial precedent for feminist work within a DIY punk context, marked all the while by Ana’s poetic lyrical style and innovative noise guitar playing. After The Raincoats’ hiatus in 1984, Ana formed the band Roseland together with This Heat’s Charles Hayward and she wrote music and collaborated with choreographer/dancer Gaby Agis. Ana returned to song writing and performing with The Raincoats after Kurt Cobain invited them to tour with Nirvana shortly before his untimely death in 1994. In 2005, Ana released her solo debut, The Lighthouse - a self-recorded collection of spare, elegant experiments in electronic indie-pop on Chicks on Speed’s label. In September 2018 shouting out loud! released “Island”, a collaborative album from Ana and Japanese electronic artist Phew. Island is a bracing odyssey in industrial noise. It is full of absorbing textures, tactile beats, and a masterfully dynamic compositional style. ~ Jenn Pelly