Darlingside - Instrumentals Vol. 1 '2020

Tracks list

If Darlingside’s first album, Birds Say (2015), focused on the past
through nostalgia, and their second, Extralife (2018), contemplated uncertain
futures, Fish Pond Fish stands firmly in the present, looking at what’s
here, now. Dave Senft, Don Mitchell, Auyon Mukharji, and Harris Paseltiner have
created a natural history in song—taking us into gardens, almond groves,
orchard rows, down to the ocean floor and under stars.

The band has long been praised for their harmonies and intelligent songwriting,
described by NPR as “exquisitely-arranged, literary-minded, baroque
folk-pop,” and their dynamic presence (crowded tightly together onstage)
have made them a live-performance favorite. But this album showcases their
broader storytelling abilities: nature is a looking glass, the songs suggest,
with tracks like Ocean Bed, Green + Evergreen, Mountain + Sea, and Crystal
Caving making metaphors of their titles. An experience of nature is an
experience of self; an experience of self is one of natural change cut and
complemented by stasis.

The band started studio recording Fish Pond Fish in late 2019, at the studio of
producer Peter Katis (Interpol, The National). At Katis’s suggestion,
many components of the initial demos were preserved as layers in the produced
tracks to retain the spirit of the initial recordings, resulting in a collection
of songs that is simultaneously the most bedroom-tracked and production-heavy
full-length album that the band has yet released.

Tracklisting:
01. Darlingside - Orion (Instrumental) (3:53)
02. Darlingside - Hold Your Head up High (Instrumental) (3:35)
03. Darlingside - Clay & Cast Iron (Instrumental) (2:53)
04. Darlingside - Heart Again (Instrumental) (3:19)
05. Darlingside - Old Friend (Instrumental) (2:25)
06. Darlingside - Whippoorwill (Instrumental) (4:38)
07. Darlingside - The God of Loss (Instrumental) (3:52)
08. Darlingside - Rodeo (Instrumental) (4:42)
09. Darlingside - Indian Orchard Road (Instrumental) (4:43)
10. Darlingside - Birds Say (Instrumental) (2:24)
11. Darlingside - Singularity (Instrumental) (3:42)
12. Darlingside - White Horses (Instrumental) (4:10)
13. Darlingside - Bright As the Day (Instrumental) (3:05)
14. Darlingside - Futures (Instrumental) (4:44)
15. Darlingside - Lindisfarne (Instrumental) (4:26)
16. Darlingside - The Ancestor (Instrumental) (3:13)
17. Darlingside - Shes All Around (Instrumental) (3:41)
18. Darlingside - Harrison Ford (Instrumental) (3:28)
19. Darlingside - The Rabbit & the Pointed Gun (Instrumental) (1:16)
20. Darlingside - Look Up & Fly Away (Instrumental) (6:02)

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