Seattle based garage-rockers The Darts go all out with late night songs about zombies, ghosts, sex (and sex with ghosts), politics and what-have-you on their new album Halloween Love Songs. It's fast, it's loud, with the lo-fi sound of vintage organs smack in the middle of the mix. If the Cramps, The 13th Floor Elevators or The Slits had enlisted a keyboard player they might have sounded like this.
Make no mistake, they may look like B-movie heroines, but they also get their inspiration from the medieval Apocalypse Tapestry, when they take a swipe at the political turmoil in the US. The repeated "no future, no kings" ensures that they won't be playing at the Kennedy Center anytime soon.
High-brow mayhem that takes some time to sink in properly - the ace hooks and riffs tend to overshadow the lyrical content at first. Being smart and having fun at the same time is hard to pull off, but this quartet covers all the bases, making it look so easy.
The Darts:
Nicole Laurenne: lead vocals, backing vocals, Farfisa organ, Hammond organ, Wurlitzer piano, Rhodes piano, Mellotron, music box, glockenspiel, piano
Rebecca Davidson: guitars
Lindsay Scarey: bass, screams, Mellotron, sound effects
Rikki Styxx: drums, tambourine, every form of percussion, screams, dog bowls
Halloween Love Songs is released via Adrenalin Fix Music.
Tracks:- Midnight Creep
- Zombies On The Metro
- Blood Run Cold
- Vampires In Love
- Dream Ghost
- Every Night Is Halloween
- Apocalypse
- The Devil Made Me Do It
- Darkness
- Up In My Soul
- Haunt Me
- Shadow
- Late Drive
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