A great song can transform and transcend -- that is the Silos' mandate. Create great songs and deliver them with a fierce beauty of form that follows function. Like a fine computer program, the Silos >start with a compact, lucid and powerful source code -- the eternal idea that songs have an indescribable power over humankind. The source code is then wrapped with layers of albums, global concert tours, new experiences and new members. Each layer becomes the code -- the song.

In the winter of 1998, the Silos returned to New York City, the place of the band's birth. During two years of extensive touring in support of their album "Heater," the band created the songs from "Laser Beam Next Door." Road testing them with audiences, editing and rewriting, the band distilled their essence and eschewed all but the core emotional sequences.

Over these two years, the Silos distilled itself into a trio, with each member expanding his own repertoire of musical talents while restricting himself to using these talents in service of the mandate and the source code. The poetic, bilingual vocal vision and bristling, reductive guitar playing of Walter Salas-Humara, the expansive, melodic and foundational bass drive of Drew Glackin, and the explosive, inclusive and worldly percussion work of Konrad Meissner all translate into the lean, mean musical machine the Silos have become. This invigorated combination will effectively redefine everything you thought you knew about the Silos.

The "Laser Beam Next Door" suggests an image of a tightly focused and fierce pride right in one's midst if one has the courage to open up to it. The Silos is that fierce pride and the culmination of years of experience dedicated to a single goal. Walter, Drew and Konrad are the laser beam next door.