Beer released her debut album, Life Support, on February 26, 2021. Soon after that, she embarked on her second headlining tour, The Life Support Tour in promotion of the album.
On May 31, 2023, two days before the fourth single, "Home to Another One", Beer, along with Portnoy officially announced the title and the release date of September 15, 2023.[5]
I got started really young doing this, and I feel like I've had a very busy 12 years or so in the industry and I kind of convinced myself that the moments where I was making music and when I was on tour and when I was my busiest was when I was growing, she shared of the metaphorical album title. As I've gotten a little bit older, I realized it's actually been the moments that I've been able to tune out the noise and I've been able to be alone, really reflect and be more isolated where I've grown the most. So, it's the silence between songs and when the noise is turned off is when I feel like I've learned who I am the most.
Beer sent the album to American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey prior to its release. Beer stated in an interview that Del Rey's favorite track was the opening track of the album, "Spinnin". Beer also revealed that the album is influenced by some of her "idols" such as Tame Impala, American rock band The Beach Boys and American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey.[7]
Release and promotion
Singles
The album's lead single "Reckless" was released on June 4, 2021.[8] The song peaked at number 38 on Billboard's US mainstream Top 40, and is a pop song. The song was performed live at Beer's headlining tour The Life Support Tour as a part of the setlist.
The album's second single "Dangerous" was released on August 26, 2022.[9]
On October 9, 2023, Madison Beer announced The Spinnin Tour with the name referring to the album's fifth single.[13] The tour will take place in Europe and North America and will feature Polish singer Jann, and American singers Charlotte Lawrence and Upsahl as supporting acts. The tour marks her third headlining concert tour after The Life Support Tour in support of her debut album. The Spinnin Tour commenced on February 24, 2024, in Stockholm and conclude on June 13, 2024, in Los Angeles consisting of a total of 52 dates across Europe and North America.
Silence Between Songs was met with generally positive reviews from music critics upon its release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 70, based on six reviews.[14] Poppie Platt of The Telegraph called it "vastly superior" to Life Support as it is "full of smooth, stylish pop songs just begging to become radio hits" and "seems like the album Beer has been wanting – and waiting – to make for a long, long time".[19] Lauren deHollogne of Clash characterized the songs as "carefully crafted compositions" with "magically soft harmonies" that "seem to have more of an actual purpose", and concluded that the album is a "record with a message that is so authentically her".[17]
The Line of Best Fit's Sam Franzini wrote that much of the album is "gentle, unassuming pop" and while "there are some exciting ideas here", it gets too "bogged down by an odd reframing of the past" as "Beer spends too much time looking through rose-colored glasses, wondering how her story will be told, for it to be relatable".[1] Thomas Smith of NME called most of Silence Between Songs "a clear nod to Tame Impala's psych-rock as well as swooning '60s pop and rock" but stated that "there's one too many generic, string-laden ballads, and a stop-start feel to the record".[18]
