No matter how hard they try, musicians are always influenced by their surroundings.
Somehow or other, the backdrop to new music always seeps through. Hailing from Minnsota, American newcomers Dark Dark Dark excel in soundtracking the state’s wide plains and empty prairie land.
Drafting in musicians from across the United States, Dark Dark Dark’s six members specialise in folk noir. Deeply influenced by European traditional music, the band’s stark output bares comparison with Beirut or even A Hawk And A Hacksaw.
Slowed down discordant folk, Dark Dark Dark blend touches of classical music with the pop song. Melting together banjos, horns and strings the band always pull themselves back from the brink, lurching into melancholy but no despair.
New EP ‘Bright Bright Bright’ – see what they did there? – is attracting critical attention, with its deeply affecting songwriting marking the band out as sensitive artists.
Dark Dark Dark crafted the EP in an old church above Lake Superior, with Tom Herbers taking the helm. Previously working with Low and The Jayhawks, Herbers seems the perfect choice for the group’s mixture of deathly slow music and country harmonies.
Taken from the new EP, ‘Daydreaming’ is a subtle piece of songwriting which pushes all six members to the brink.
Listen to it now… Grab it HERE.
