DARKSIDE release new track ‘Are You Tired? (Keep On Singing)’, taken from their forthcoming album Nothing, out February 28th.
In just under seven minutes, ‘Are You Tired? (Keep On Singing)’ spans almost as many decades. The wind whispers, Harrington’s guitar scythes minimally over Jaar’s falsetto, now slathered in echo and reverb. Then a middle suite sounds almost like a funkier Byrds circa Sweetheart of the Rodeo. It’s followed by a gentle breakdown where agile guitars crack through an ominous Druidic fog. Theoretically, none of this should make sense, but it’s somehow seamless.
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.
Pre-order / pre-save Nothing here.
Listen / purchase ‘Are You Tired? (Keep On Singing)’ here.
