Nothing

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Label: Matador
Release Date: 28th February

Glad to have Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington back as DARKSIDE and with their drummer buddy  Tlacael Esparza turning them into a proper trio and a legit band. The single 'SNC' jerks, fidgets and has a real cool streetwalking funk as the tangy synths dance with a disco guitar and warped bass guitar thrumming. 

It fittingly started from scratch. On their first two reinventions, Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington entered the studio with a clutch of scattered ideas and loose melodic fragments to mould into what became the revered ‘Psychic’(2013) and ‘Spiral’ (2021). But ‘Nothing’ reflected a search for form borne out of spontaneous elliptical jams, acoustic riffing, and digital levitations. And in a fundamental shift from their first dozen years as a band, Jaar and Harrington recruited their longtime friend and collaborator, the drummer and instrument designer Tlacael Esparza, to become a full-time member.

The outcome is magnetic and hieroglyphic. This album slips through the cracks of convention with serpentine guitars, extraterrestrial static, and cavernous drums. Haunted rhythms, distorted vocals, and uncanny beauty. No band but DARKSIDE could have made ‘Nothing,’ and in no moment but now.

Tracklisting:

SLAU
S.N.C
Are You Tired? (Keep on Singing)
Graucha Max
American References
Heavy Is Good For This
Hell suite, Pt. I
Hell suite, Pt. II
Sin El Sol No Hay Na