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Artist: | Darlingside |
Title: | Darlingside Everything Is Alive VINYL LP |
Released: | 28/07/2023 |
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Format: | VINYL LP |
Country | EU/US |
Barcode: | 793888873988 |
Catalogue number: | MDR0051 |
Store location: | pre-order |
SKU: | WLF07903 |
Condition: | BRAND NEW & SEALED |
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The follow up to the bands celebrated 2020 release Fish Pond Fish and Darlingsides fourth LP marks a subtle but remarkable departure for the Boston-based quartet NPR once described as exquisitely arranged, literary minded, baroque folk- pop. While the album retains much of the lushness and sophistication of Extralife (2018) and Fish Pond Fish, the bands latest work highlights the individuality of the four songwriters in a way that adds a fitting element of reinvention to an album that captures brilliantly the quality of the moment in which it was made. Grappling with change both personal and universal, with quandaries domestic and existential, Everything Is Alive is an album about loss and the struggle for a semblance of redemption; themes of grief, distance and hope permeate an album filled with vivid imagery and lyrical creativity. Comprised of Don Mitchell, Auyon Mukharji, Harris Paseltiner and David Senft, four likeminded multi-instrumentalists who first met at Williams College in 2009, Darlingsides career has been defined by the elegance of their compositions and the remarkable unity of their four voices. Their talent for harmony and melodic world-building is part of what garnered praise from outlets like NPR, Rolling Stone and The New Yorker, and what has created demand worldwide for their extraordinary live performances. Becoming beautifully unindividualized has, in other words, worked very well for Darlingside in the past. With a vigor and discipline more common to graduate-level writing workshops than to indie rock, Darlingside have, over the years, experimented with all manners of idiosyncratic methods for elevating and upholding a truly democratic process of songwritingprocesses that include multiple rounds of group writing and recording exercisesall with the aim of escaping the trap that bands with multiple songwriters often fall into: the ruse of ego-driven infighting and artistic incoherence. Everything Is Alive is Darlingside taking a risk. Nudged by the limitations created by pandemic isolation, as well as through other more voluntary catalysts, the album, which was produced and recorded by the band and mixed by Tucker Martine (My Morning Jacket, Sufjan Stevens, Iron and Wine), foregrounds in a sustained and heretofore untried way the individual voices of each member. Where once the harmonies formed a hard-won sonic unification, Everything Is Alive showcases the four singers as they alternate (more or less) song for song, an approach that rewards listeners with a sense of personal ownership and, therefore, a new degree of intimacy and nuance. Everything Is Alive, which was begun in 2021, seems a continuation of 2020s Fish Pond Fish. A sequel, perhaps; the second half of a COVID double album. While their talent for lush harmonies and intricate songwriting has distinguished Darlingside throughout their acclaimed career, the evolution on this record inspires listeners with a new degree of intimacy and nuance.
1 | Green Light |
2 | Lose The Keys |
3 | Right Friend |
4 | All The Lights In The City |
5 | Eliza I See |
6 | Darkening Hour |
7 | How Long Again |
8 | Down Here |
9 | Baking Soda |
10 | Sea Dogs |
11 | Can't Help Falling Apart |
12 | The Breaking Of The Day |
format | VINYL |
artist | Darlingside |
Forthcoming | yes |
Year of Issue | 2023 |
Recently In Stock | No |
Forthcoming | No |
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