Darker My Love - Darker My Love
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Free Music Review: existential
Hit: 5 Stars
this is, so far, the undiscovered great group. if you lean towards brian jonestown, dandy warhols, black angels, and deerhunter, you should really like thisFree Music Review: One fine disc
Hit: 5 Stars
One of the best musical purchases I've made this year. High quality songs from start to finish, unusual in this genre.
Worth a listen.
Free Music Review: Will there be a sophomore release?
Hit: 4 Stars
I became aware of this CD by way of the most recent US tour of the Fall. Both Barbato and Presley, the two principal members of Darker My Love, are now purportedly full fledged members of that group and it is unclear as to whether DML will continue or wither, so to speak. This may depend on the irascible ME Smith. In any case, the latter path would be unfortunate. This is one of the better releases that I've heard in a long time. I have yet to hear a superior blend of 60s psychedelia and music typified by groups such as My Bloody Valentine. Were it not for a sense of repetitiveness in some of the songs, I would have easily ranked this CD as deserving 5 stars.
PS I take back my last statement. This deserves 5 stars or more.
Free Music Review: First-Rate Psychedelia
Hit: 4 Stars
If you dig the Brian Jonestown Massacre, the Dandy Warhols, My Bloody Valentine, the Jesus & Mary Chain, the Morning After Girls and/or the Velvet Underground, you'll love this CD. Strong melodies, nice harmonies and lush sonics make this album a must-have for fans of old and new psychedelia. Recommended without reservations. Peace.Free Music Review: 3 stars compared to "2's four stars, but a solid starter
Hit: 3 Stars
Many previous listeners rated this highly. In retrospect compared to the initial reviews before the release of the follow-up: it's a good CD, but compared to "2," clearly a début on an indie label. It's full of passion and ideas if a bit awkward and raw in the actual product. It's often heavier than their second one, logically titled "2." (I reviewed that the day before I did this on Amazon.) As no previous Amazon reviewer has commented on the actual songs, here goes. "Opening" and "Post Mortem" resemble The Black Angels (both albums also reviewed by me) tribal droning or the Warlocks' gloomier delivery, as well as Jesus & Mary Chain at their most sluggish. There's also a hint of the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter" backbeat.
"What's a Man's Paris" has a catchier assault to match its strange title; "Helium Heels" moves along mid-tempo, more like the songs on "2" will. "Fall" may not predict their interim period touring with and then becoming The Fall, but it does lurch about more between fast and slow, and I think the drums into the guitar interlude halfway through do capture that band's longer tracks. There's also notably a growling voice mixed deep midstream into its vocal!
"Hello Traveler" blends a Swervedriver guitar-drums-bass propulsion with distortion pedals to good effect; the vocal harmonies needed to be not so muddy, however, and the percussion reels and stumbles near the end of the song too clunkily. "Claws & Paws" stalks like a feline through a dark tunnel before picking up the pace into a livelier, if no less thickly textured, sound. "Catch" continues the sludgier mood.
"People" follows patterns from post-punks like The Chameleons or Echo & the Bunnymen, but it does not improve much on this template. "I Feel Fine" is not a Beatles homage, but it shares a woozy psychedelic ambiance. These later songs on the record all are placed correctly-- a feature that helps "2" immensely-- but they tend to drag. Fine if you're in a downbeat mood, but they weigh the album down. This is not bad in itself, but after four songs, the closer "Summer Is Here" does pound more insistently, maybe as if The Stone Roses met "Little Games"-era Yardbirds? Yet, even it ends rather oddly.
The band improves on "2," but if like me you wanted more of DML after hearing that CD, this one's strong enough to warrant purchase. You can also find some songs on the Live at Spaceland releases from summer '06 when they were the house band at that Silverlake trendy nitespot. The production's murkier, the songs show more promise than finesse, and the writing's not as tight. Still, a promising first record from a band that has since proven its progress and its potential.
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