Album Reviews

Darker My Love – 2

If Syd Barrett, the late singer of Pink Floyd, had gotten the opportunity to sit in with Mudhoney, something resembling Darker My Love might have been the result. The Los Angeles-based band’s latest release, 2, alternates between muddy, haze-filled stoner jams and British psychedelia fit for lounging around a milk bar with George Harrison and the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. “Add One to the Other One” grows from delicate atmospherics into a searing Black Sabbath-style song, with fierce electric guitar that approximates a blues harmonica. The band pushes into more lush arrangements, complementing Tim Presley’s spaced-out vocals with bouncing Clavinet and organ lines by new member, Will Canzoneri. Darker My Love eschews the peripatetic listening habits of the iPod Generation by creating a perfectly realized and phenomenal record: good from needle drop to vinyl flip.

-Drew Tewksbury

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© 2008 Drew Tewksbury: Multimedia Journalist.