Dark Dark Dark - Wild Go

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4...according to our Mike on Wed 20 Apr, 2011.

This is pretty interesting. Dark Dark Dark play piano-led chamber folk with predominantly girl vocals. It's dark-tinged but not as downbeat as their name would have you believe. More brooding than maudlin, I want to compare them to The National but there's a sense of wonder here that I don't get from that band. Similar kind of shuffling propulsiveness from the drums, though. The arrangements are relatively sparse but there's a real clarity to the songwriting that always keeps everything moving forwards. Banjo, accordian and strings drop in and out of the sound as and when needed, and there's some nicely arranged group harmonies in the vocals, too, and just when you think you've got a handle on it they'll surprise you with a bit of fuzzy guitar or clarinet. Really beautiful, actually.

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*Minneapolis based chamber-folk sextet Dark Dark Dark revel in the wonder that is around us always. On their breathtaking
sophomore album Wild Go, the band has created a stirring reminder to seek out that magic. Their dramatic sound sets
Nona Marie Invie’s soaring, haunting voice against age-old instrumentation that evokes the soundtrack to a beautiful film.

*For Wild Go, the group expanded the sound they captured on their 2008 debut, The Snow Magic. They've continued with
the line-up that solidified on their critically-acclaimed Bright Bright Bright EP, and pushed further with more nuanced
arrangements and more personal content. The songwriting is shared by Invie and LaCount, while the band then crafts their
parts and the arrangements, sounding much like Beirut coupled with Nona’s haunting, yet uplifting, female vocals.

*The 10-song collection is a marked evolution for the group, which began in 2006 as a collaboration between multi-instrumentalists and singers Nona Marie Invie and Marshall LaCount. These two inspired songwriters bring together disparate influences – including minimalism, New Orleans jazz, Americana, Eastern European folk, and pop – creating something altogether singular and absolutely epic. This diversity is their greatest strength. They use contrast - in texture, tone, and imagery - to build their own deeply-experienced world into the songs. For example, on the single "Daydreaming," Invie's warm voice and piano are supported by sparse and clean drums, a guitar with lush reverb, and cascades of dirty and distorted banjo, while an accordion wanders its way through harmonies.

*They credit a few years and constant touring with helping them to mature and collaborate to shape the music and its
impressions on listeners. They've achieved a real kinship and communication that is evident in the way it pulls us in to their
experiences. Wild Go will connect with listeners and transport them into Dark Dark Dark’s mesmerizing vision of a world
within this world. They don't settle for the ordinary, and they ask that we come along.

*Wild go is released in the UK and Europe through Melodic. Both the vinyl and CD editions are bundled with the bands
earlier 2010 EP release ‘Bright Bright Bright’

*Vinyl Limited To 500 Only For Europe..

“...perhaps Dark Dark Dark's true accomplishment here is how they mix sounds and influences so effortlessly. They
comprise a tight, intuitive unit, especially when the instruments swirl together into an otherworldly eddy of sound.” –
Pitchfork

Tracklisting:

(CD1) Tracklisting: 1. In Your Dreams 2. Daydreaming 3. Heavy Heart 4. Celebrate 5. Nobody Knows 6. Something For Myself 7. Right Path 8. Robert 9. Say The Word 10. Wild Go. Bright Bright Bright

(CD2) Tracklisting: 1. Bright Bright Bright 2. The Hand 3. Something For Myself 4. Make Time 5. Flood 6. Wild Goose Chase

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