13 Bands You Didn't Realise Were One Album Wonders
8. Darkside
Psychic would be the perfect soundtrack for a crime drama set in the deep South of the United States, something on the Bayou called, like, I dont know, Drue Totective maybe. Darkside are the electronic collaboration of Nicholas Jaar and Dave Harrington and these boys make music that reverberates round the walls of your bedroom with bass lines that tremble like a clumsy adolescent trying to unhook a bra. Its just bursting with mood swings, one minute its soaring and flying, the next its crashing back down to Earth at terminal velocity. Its the album equivalent of a manic depressive. This is a masterful album though, its almost like it was made for a thesis by some students trying to get their doctorate on the musical form. Psychic is overflowing with tiny electronic glitches like the first contact signals from an alien spaceship. Fitting, as it feels like Darkside were making the music of the future. Despite all this, deep down it is electronic music that feels like it was made by a human rather than a laptop; there is beauty in its imperfections and it hits every single one of your erogenous zones.
