Darkside
Nothing
Release Date: Feb 28, 2025
Genre(s): Electronic
Record label: Matador
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Album Review: Nothing by Darkside
Exceptionally Good, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 4.5
The New York trio have made an album almost bursting with ideas, one that, given the time, you’ll want to live with for months to come The third album from New York-based electro band Darkside sees a few changes for the group. Nothing is their first album since becoming a trio – drummer and percussionist Tiacael Esparza joined Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington in 2022 – and the change in energy is immediately obvious. For while Darkside’s previous albums – their acclaimed debut Psychic and 2021’s Spiral – were excellent, they very much felt like studio projects.
Based on rating 4/5
DARKSIDE has never been a fixed entity. Electronic producer Nicolas Jaar and guitarist Dave Harrington saw the project as the meeting point of their disparate styles, and a way to push themselves with improvising. Those early jams were fluid - sometimes bluesy and conventional, and at others noisy and cryptic. The live versions of songs skirt off in odd directions before returning to centre, if they return at all.
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