Darkside - Darkside EP - 2011 Downtempo Ambient Rock - Sealed 3 Trk 10" EP

Darkside - Darkside EP


Label: Clown And Sunset
Cat#: CS008
Format: Vinyl, 10", EP, 33 RPM, 45 RPM, Limited Edition, Reissue
Country: US
Black Vinyl edition vinyl
Released: 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Downtempo



Tracklist


A1 Untitled
A2 Untitled
AA Untitled



On listening to Nicolas Jaar's 2011 bluesy electronica project with his guitarist Dave Harrington, Darkside, it's rather too easy to forget that he was just 21. This is seriously ambitious music, with the emphasis on serious. There's no flim flam or shilly shallying. Just look at those song titles for starters—"A1," "A2," "A3." Jaar and Harrington save the creativity for the music itself, it seems.

Released on Jaar's own Clown & Sunset imprint, all three tracks are hewn from the same nugget of precious metal. "A1" sounds like cosmic disco slowed down to 33rpm; Harrington's loping, arpeggiated guitar work is the setting over which is draped scurrying synths and modernist classical flourishes. To top it off, Jaar doubles up his vocals, overlaying an emotive baritone with a brittle falsetto. That same falsetto and moody fretwork appears again on "A2"; it has a Doors-y bluesiness and some of those minimalist Chilean tendencies, although it's a little too close in feel to the opener for comfort. The EP is rounded off by the dubby "A3," which moseys into town like some modern spaghetti western soundtrack, all grumbling, resonant guitar and distant echo.


Darkside - A1


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Darkside (aka Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington) - A3

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