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Album Reviews
Album Review: Darker My Love – 2 (Dangerbird/Strange Addiction)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 3 August 2009
Although often overlooked, a killer rhythm section can be the force that turns a song otherwise made up of just casual melodies and basic words into an addictive essential. And the pistons keeping the machine running on these LA drone rocker’s second album are as mechanical as they are tormenting, keeping each beat tight with an underlying aggression. It means that the bread of this shoegaze sandwich is a quality make, all healthy in its wholemeal goodness. The filling, though, seems to be nothing more than own-brand cottage cheese, and without any of that delicious pineapple that you sometimes get. So, beyond the beat, what’s on offer here is sub My Bloody Valentine psychedelic riffs that tease the tedium out of every note, and vocals so frail and close to nothing as to be mind-workings of Paris Hilton. It’s dull, it’s asinine and it’s a shame such a sound foundation is left to last only as a catacomb, with a surface so barren and unnoticeable. Bands like Glasvegas and Pink Mountaintops have found a way to take such a potentially dull genre something special by adding style, class and passion to proceedings. Darker My Love haven’t. And nor have they attempted to. Let’s hope there won’t be a ‘3’. TM
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