Wild Go
- Dark Dark Dark
- Band Name: Dark Dark Dark
- Record Label: Supply and Demand
- Release Date: Oct 5, 2010
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Jul 28, 201167The band works via accumulation, gradually building up to moments of muted drama, yet LaCount's leads wreck that momentum.
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Jul 28, 201180Melodies take shape and dissolve, musical reference points blend unexpectedly but the effect, though disorientating, is always accessible. [Jun 2011, p.110]
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Jul 28, 201180When co-leader Marshall LaCount takes vocals the band teeter on the brink of woe-is-me self-parody, but overall this is like a statelier Mazzy Star, dark in all the right places. [May 2011, p.82]
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Jul 28, 201160The tone is wistful and serene more than sad and heavy, but principal singer Nona Marie Invie still sounds like a femme fatale, with a coiled, spectral charm that suits the band's name. [Jun 2011, p.104]
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Jul 28, 201130Just as you're starting to see light at the end of the tunnel, you realise that there's another five-track EP by these self-absorbed, boring, aesthetically bankrupt bellends still to go. Double bummer.
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Jul 28, 201170Though their own spirit may have mellowed and darkened over time, on Wild Go Dark Dark Dark couldn't be moving more resolutely towards the light.
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Jul 28, 201150There are flourishes throughout, but there are also too many pretensions and, ultimately, the album is undone by an unwelcome abundance of unresolved ideas.
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Jul 28, 201190Wild Go is easily among the frontrunners for album of the year (so far).
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Jul 28, 201175The tracks are at their most compelling--which is to say: very compelling--when they're listened to in isolation from one another or liberated from the album's initial lineup. The greatest favor you can do as a listener is to allow the same open air and breathing room the songs allow themselves.