DARKSIDE – NOTHING - CD •

UPC: 191401211529 Label: MATADOR RECORDS Format: CDRelease Date: February 28, 2025In stock items ship within 48 hours'Nothing' is the third album from DARKSIDE: nine transmissions of negative space, telepathic seance, and spectral improvisation.It fittingly started from scratch. On their first two reinventions, Nicolás Jaar and DaveHarrington entered the studio with a clutch of scattered ideas and loose melodic fragments to mold into what became the revered 'Psychic' (2013) and 'Spiral' (2021). But 'Nothing' reflected a search for form borne out of spontaneous elliptical jams, acoustic riffing, and digital levitations. And in a fundamental shift from their first dozen years as a band, Jaar and Harrington recruited their longtime friend and collaborator, the drummer and instrument designer Tlacael Esparza, to become a full-time member.The outcome is magnetic and hieroglyphic. This album slips through the cracks of convention with serpentine guitars, extraterrestrial static, and cavernou