Flooding Announce New EP object 1, Share Scathing New Single “your silence is my favorite song”

Kansas City’s Flooding is stepping into a new era. The trio, fronted by Rose Brown, has announced their upcoming EP object 1, set for release this summer. As a bold introduction, they’ve dropped the first single, “your silence is my favorite song”, a haunting, guitar-driven exploration of ego, manipulation, and emotional detachment.

Brown’s vocal performance is eerily calm, almost flippant, as she slips into the mindset of a “narcissistic villain archetype.” Lines like “your bleeding heart, my lucky charm” simmer with sarcasm and disdain, slowly unraveling over sparse instrumentation before boiling over into a distorted, biting crescendo.

“Flooding can be extremely personal most of the time,” Brown explains, “but I like to explore the perspective of narcissistic villain archetypes sometimes, too. It's fun to pretend to be a piece of shit male rock idol for 4 minutes.”

The band’s new material builds on the emotional and sonic groundwork laid by their 2021 debut and 2023’s Silouette Machine, which garnered praise from the likes of Rolling Stone, Treble Zine, and New Noise Magazine for its ethereal textures and explosive dynamics. But with object 1, Flooding is leaning harder into melody and structure. Pop-forward hooks replace spoken word passages, and there’s a noticeable shift toward performance and showmanship in their live sets — a calculated move that feels anything but manufactured.

While “your silence is my favorite song” critiques a certain kind of rockstar delusion, Flooding is clearly rewriting the rules on what it means to front a band in 2025. They’ve just wrapped a North American tour with Cryogeyser and are hitting the road again with headlining shows across the Southwest, including a stop tonight at El Cid in Los Angeles with support from Starling.

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