The super trio actually begins to play and the brilliant art electro sound changes.
Anyone who is bad and, to make matters worse, they also ask what is going on, has to say the impulse: “Nothing”. Because what would be the alternative: to tell everything? This “nothing” my Darkside with your album title. But they also mean the Nothing that Nicolás Jaar, Dave Harrington and Drummer Tlacael Esparza (now a permanent member) had when they got to work. The first two Darkide albums Psychic (2013) and Spiral (2021) were based on ideas outlined. It’s different with Nothing.
The composition took place frequently on the way, on the tour through Europe in 2023. Not in booked studios, but wherever it was possible. This is also why Nothing has become the album to really start playing on the Darkside. No track ends as it begins. Everything can happen in between. The first two albums were cool complexes, driven by the idea of how it could sound if Pink Floyd were not rock dinosaurs, but digital adventurers.
Nothing also offers such moments, for example in the play “Are You Tied (Keep on Singing)”, which in between changes in a Sunshine pop track in between without you notice it. But there are also tracks such as “Graucha Marx” or “SNC”, on which Darkside aims at the dance floor: soul choirs and funk, dance punk and sounds like a crazy Nintendo console. Influences of music from Chile, the home country of Jaar’s parents, are also recognizable. At the “Slau” DUB, drummer Esparza shows what a big win he is for Darkside. And if you like it ironically: the two parts of the “Hell Suite” are divine soul ballads.
You can find out which albums were published in February 2025 via our monthly publication list.