It’s Bandcamp Friday, which suggests there’s a lot of recent music on the market, particularly of the underground selection. If you’re available in the market for quick, uncooked, unflashy punk rock, then you’re just about smothered below an avalanche of recent shit as we speak. I’m excited to dig by way of all of it, however it’s going to take me some time. Nevertheless, there’s one quick, uncooked, unflashy new punk file that calls for my speedy consideration, and yours. Immediately is an efficient day as a result of as we speak we bought a brand new motherfucking Darkish Ideas album.
Darkish Ideas, from Philadelphia, are our best present purveyors of down-the-middle Ramones-style fastball punk. They bash out hooks with head-spinning effectivity, and so they all the time sound like they’re having enjoyable even once they’re singing about being depressing. (Their band title, in any case, is actually Darkish Ideas.) Darkish Ideas don’t launch new music that always as of late. Should Be Good, their final album. got here out again in 2019. Final month, they shared a promo tape with three absolute bangers and one Ramones cowl, and so they promised an upcoming LP referred to as Freeway To The Finish. That new album is out as we speak, and it’s precisely what I wished.
For probably the most half, you understand what to anticipate from a Darkish Ideas music. The overwhelming majority of them are ultra-simple bashers with romantic-honk vocals and overdriven guitars, and so they final someplace between 45 seconds and two minutes. However Darkish Ideas really take flight once they department out, and I actually like “Please Don’t Be Lonesome,” the bittersweet acoustic ballad that arrives within the last stretch of Freeway To The Finish. I imply, I actually like the entire album, however that music stands out. Take a look at Freeway To The Finish under.
Bodily copies of Freeway To The Finish are coming in September by way of Silly Bag within the US and Drunken Sailor within the UK and Europe. Darkish Ideas will tour the US with Béton Armé in September, and so they’re enjoying a file launch present 11/9 at Philadelphia’s First Unitarian Church.
