Darkside – Nothing (LP Vinyl)
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Darkside has always operated at the edges of what rock, electronic music, and improvisation can mean when collapsed into a single room. Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington built their reputation on recordings that felt less composed than summoned, and the addition of Tlacael Esparza as a permanent third voice deepens that ritual quality considerably. Nothing arrives as the sound of a band trusting silence as much as sound.
'Nothing' is the third album from Darkside: nine transmissions of negative space, telepathic seance, and spectral improvisation.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 mold 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.
Tracklist
Side A
Side B
UPC: 191401211512
Label: Matador Records
Release Date: 2.28.25
Format: LP Vinyl