DARKSIDE Announce New Album ‘Nothing’

DARKSIDE will release their third album ‘Nothing’ on February 28th via Matador Records.

DARKSIDE – Chilean electronic musician Nicolás Jaar, American multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington, and new full-time band member, drummer Tlacael Esparza – first teased their new era with ‘Graucha Max’. Continuing to paint a hallucinatory picture, today the trio share new single ‘S.N.C’ – a funk-infused jam session between three synchronized musicians leaning fully into their far-flung influences and idiosyncrasies.

Unlike their first two efforts, the song and accompanying album was born out of “spontaneous elliptical jams, acoustic riffing, and digital levitations.” “Nothing’ became a recurring motif on DARKSIDE’s subsequent European tour in the spring and summer of 2023. Recording sessions for the album began on a tour off-day, where the trio decamped to a studio in the south of France. Quickly, they locked into a whimsical, loose groove. The sessions in France were followed by another week in Los Angeles and another round in Paris.

One central track, the ‘Nothing Jam’ emerged from these impromptu sessions. This concept initially came out of the constant search for mindfulness, but also through Harrington’s moments in the morning with his newborn daughter, where he found a deep beauty in just sitting with her on the floor doing nothing.

For Jaar, this concept of nothing became applicable to other aspects of life. ‘Nothing’ is the reflexive answer when asked about what’s wrong, when there’s too much to even begin to express. In this framework, “nothing” means its mirror opposite. Or “nothing” can be a damning illustration of apathy and the lack of change in the world. The maddening inaction on climate change, the political hypocrisy, and the recurring cycles of violence against the people of Palestine, Sudan, and elsewhere.

‘Nothing’ is a record that reveals “new wrinkles and vortices with every listen, a slowly bubbling, electro-acoustic symphony of small movements and subtle gestures.”

Watch the video for ‘S.N.C’ below, directed by Cuan Roche.

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