Praise for DARKSIDE – Spiral
“a mysterious alchemy… The electronic duo’s highly anticipated album builds off the aesthetic of their first, culminating in a suite of songs that are as atmospheric as they are grounded in real time” – Wall Street Journal
“a gorgeous, often filmic listen that rewards with each spin… Eight years was worth the wait.” – NME, 4 stars
“There’s a hallucinatory, almost shamanic energy to Spiral, whether on the choral harmonies of opener ‘Narrow Road’, the twang of the sitar on ‘I’m The Echo’ or the chime of the bell in third single ‘Lawmaker’” – Crack (8/10)
“… rather than reliving the glory of that first album, Spiral finds new inspiration to dive into… a patient, introspective listen, one that hangs on stroytelling more than atmosphere. It’s deeply rewarding” – Loud & Quiet (8/10)
“DARKSIDE push their limits while honing the distinctive sound that made the project so singular to begin with” – Paste
“Excellent follow-up Spiral is similarly free-standing, forging together Jaar’s trademark austere minimalism and penchant for avant-garde abstractions” – Record Collector, ????
DARKSIDE, the duo of Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington, have released their long-awaited second album Spiral via Matador / Rhythmethod.
Spiral is the long-awaited second full-length from DARKSIDE. Written and recorded in 2018, the album was mixed by Rashad Becker and mastered by Heba Kadry. It follows the band’s lauded 2014 debut Psychic.
Spiral has been previewed with singles ‘Lawmaker’, ‘The Limit’ and ‘Liberty Bell’.
DARKSIDE is an American rock band formed in Providence, Rhode Island in 2011. The group consists of Chilean electronic musician & vocalistNicolás Jaar and American multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington. Jaarand Harrington first met while studying in Providence through their common friend and saxophonist Will Epstein. In the summer of 2011, they toured Europe and Australia in support of Jaar’s breakthrough debut album Space Is Only Noise.
Upon returning to Providence, they continued to write together, releasing their self-titled EP in 2012 and their critically acclaimed debut album Psychic on Matador Records in October 2013. The album was met with glowing reviews, including a 9.0 from Pitchfork and the New York Timescalling it “the soundtrack to a lost David Lynch sci-fi movie.”
In the years that followed the Psychic tour in 2014, the musicians moved on parallel and occasionally intersecting paths. Jaar would release five albums under his name and two collections of club music as Against All Logic. Harrington worked as a producer and composer, releasing two albums with his Dave Harrington Group. During that time he also played some 300 shows in NYC and Brooklyn, becoming deeply entrenched with a wide-ranging community of improvisers and collaborators, performing and recording with Yuka Honda, Brian Chase, Ilhan Ersahin, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Joe Russo, Innov Gnawa, Angel Deradoorian, The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Nels Cline, and more.
In the summer of 2018, Harrington and Jaar rented a small house on Lenni-Lenape territory, which is present-day Flemington, New Jersey. The group spent a week there, making a song a day. While it would take another year and a half to complete their second album, six songs from the band’s new record Spiral were written and recorded during this initial session.
“From the beginning, DARKSIDE has been our jam band. Something we did on days off. When we reconvened, it was because we really couldn’t wait to jam together again,” says Jaar.
Harrington echoes this, “It felt like it was time again,” he said. “We do things in this band that we would never do on our own. DARKSIDE is the third being in the room that just kind of occurs when we make music together.”
Buy / Listen DARKSIDE – Spiral: https://darkside.ffm.to/spiral
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