{"title":"Darkside","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican duo based in New York City, playing electronic and experimental music. Formed by musicians Dave Harrington and Nicolas Jaar in 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2014 the duo went on hiatus until the announcement of a new release \"Spiral\" in 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"psychic","title":"Psychic","description":"\u003cp\u003eDarkside is the collaborative duo of guitarist Dave Harrington and electronic producer Nicolas Jaar. Recorded in New York and Paris and weighing in at eight tracks heavy, 'Psychic', on one hand, can sound like a million things at once and then on the other, like nothing you've heard before! It's minimal, it's balearic, it's krautrock, it's atmospheric, it's like Pink Floyd produced by Daniel Lanois recorded at Paisley Park. A stunning album from beginning to end and sure to feature in every end of year chart with ease. 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In the summer of 2011, they toured Europe and Australia in support of Jaar’s breakthrough debut album \u003ci\u003eSpace Is Only Noise\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpon returning to Providence, they continued to write together, releasing their self-titled EP in 2012 and their critically acclaimed debut album \u003ci\u003ePsychic\u003c\/i\u003e on Matador Records in October 2013. The album was met with glowing reviews, including a 9.0 from Pitchfork and The New York Times calling it “the soundtrack to a lost David Lynch sci-fi movie.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 2018, Harrington and Jaar rented a small house on Lenni-Lenape territory, which is present-day Flemington, New Jersey. The group spent a week there, making a song a day. While it would take another year and a half to complete their second album, six songs from the band’s new record \u003ci\u003eSpiral\u003c\/i\u003e were written and recorded during this initial session.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the beginning, Darkside has been our jam band. Something we did on days off. When we reconvened, it was because we really couldn’t wait to jam together again,” says Jaar. Harrington echoes this, “It felt like it was time again,” he said. “We do things in this band that we would never do on our own. 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I think there's a method to what Nico and I share, embracing spontaneity, trust, and improvisation. We're gonna try anything, really. If we have an idea, we'll chase it and see where it takes us.” So how did Psychic manage to collapse decades of psychedelia, jazz, dub, and electronic into one album? According to Harrington, “We got there because we weren't thinking about it.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vinyl Me Please","offers":[{"title":"Clear LP","offer_id":50495850742091,"sku":"2225052","price":42.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_c0bbb434_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727715237"},{"product_id":"nothing-11","title":"Nothing","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt fittingly started from scratch. 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 \u003ci\u003ePsychic\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and \u003ci\u003eSpiral\u003c\/i\u003e (2021). But \u003ci\u003eNothing\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe outcome is magnetic and hieroglyphic. This album slips through the cracks of convention with serpentine guitars, extraterrestrial static, and cavernous drums. Haunted rhythms, distorted vocals, and uncanny beauty. No band but Darkside could have made \u003ci\u003eNothing\u003c\/i\u003e, and in no moment but now. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Matador","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":51049319039307,"sku":"2237887","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Red LP","offer_id":51049321398603,"sku":"2237888","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":51049315795275,"sku":"2237872","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/7df5554d-7dda-8ffd-6267-0ed7ed1eb11f_99dbacd7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1736176867"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_3d13128d_thumbnail_4096_707d6f08-366c-4342-b29f-3e8ca12490ba.jpg?v=1726544099","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/darkside.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}