Indie rock outfit Darling Darlene let the skeletons out of the closet in their moody and naive approach to pop songwriting. The project is a clash between country and disco, arrangement and intuition, sincerity and stupidity in a 00’s fighting game arena, where the sharp pixelated edges are smoothed over by a dense mist.
The fog leaves you stumbling through blurry sonics and unclear narratives circling estrangement, strandedness and Sisyphean perseverance. Blindly, your hand catches a thread. Cutting through the ethereal is a trail of clear-cut melodies, simple percussive synthesizers, vocal harmonies and sharp song structures maintaining direction and form.
In late 2024, the first of a new breed of songs from the quartet, ‘Mechanical Heart’, emerged. A departure from the prior Dream Pop sound, the reclusive disco-rock track charts a grittier, darker path ahead for the group with several additional releases planned for 2025.
