Album Review: Dark Dark Dark (U.S.A.), Who Needs Who?, Released: 01.10.2012, Label: Melodic, Available on Vinyl (Comes with free MP3 Download Code), C.D. & MP3 Download Album.
Dark Dark Dark, as stated in the live review back in August, I regard as chamber music. They have two previous albums, the last of which, Wild Go, I find very impressive. This album I understand to be based upon the two lead musicians in Dark Dark Dark romantically breaking up and then having to tour for a year after that. Track one is the title track, and is quite somber in parts and frantic in others, underpinned by beautiful piano playing and singing, a great start. Track two 'Tell Me' and track three 'Last Time I Saw Joe' are also quite beautiful with a lilting and affirming quality. Track four, 'Patsy Cline' sounds remorseful yet enveloping. Track five, 'Without You' sounds weary, yet with a stalking menace. Track six, 'How It Went Down' is a restrained lament. Track seven 'It's a secret', Is more rousing in contrast to previous numbers. Track eight, 'Hear Me', is brooding, soaring and very melodic. Track nine, 'Meet In The Dark' has patches of beautiful piano and other instrumentation accompanied by yearning vocals, with the patches connected by vocals that are jolting, though this appears strangely well balanced. Track ten, 'The Great Mistake' returns to lovely melodic harmonising, with clean and restrained lead vocal, that latterly soars pleasingly.The piano playing throughout the album is very pleasant. The whole album I feel has a wistful quality to it, along with a graceful restraint. There is not a single track I would wish to try to skip, which the last album, Wild Go, although I greatly enjoyed did a couple of distinctively weaker tracks on it. I am very taken by this album and feel it is their best work to date. They get better and better with each album.
(Purchased on Vinyl).
Rating: 10/10.
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