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Darkside's Psychic: A Psychedelic Sonic Journey
18 Sep
Summary
- Darkside's debut album Psychic offers an endlessly explorable sonic experience.
- The album blends disparate influences like disco, prog-rock, and funk.
- Key tracks like 'Golden Arrow' showcase the duo's experimental approach.
Darkside, the musical partnership of Nicolás Jaar and guitarist Dave Harrington, has unveiled their debut album, Psychic. This release follows their recent reimagining of Daft Punk's Random Access Memories and offers a dense, electrified, yet organic listening experience that constantly evolves.
Psychic represents a logical progression from Darkside's 2011 EP, yet it feels like a true artistic statement. The album aims to emulsify the music industry obsessions prevalent before the compact disc era, blending opulent disco with ornate prog-rock, and yacht-pop with astral funk.
This experimental approach is exemplified on the gargantuan opening track, 'Golden Arrow.' This 11-minute piece features space-rock synthesized drones, a slack disco beat, funk guitars, and falsetto vocals, all filtered through a modernist, experimental lens. The duo explores musical territories neither of them experienced firsthand, creating a fascinating and deeply explorable sonic landscape.
