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Dark Dark Dark Bright Bright Bright
Supply and Demand Music
Honest songwriting and intimate ensemble performances. Anyone who has experienced Dark Dark Dark's live show is familiar with this simple recipe for magic. On this lush collection of six songs, DDD expands to a six piece band, joined by Walt McClements on accordion and piano and Brett Bullion on drums and percussion. The band's chorus of voices expands to a choir with the addition of four vocalist friends. The sound is captured and mixed on analog tape by revered local engineer, Tom Herbers at Sacred Heart Recording Studio in Duluth, Minnesota, a 100-year-old church with incredible acoustics and two grand pianos.
Available as a 12" vinyl (AAA) or digital download (full download also included with Vinyl Purchase)
Listen and order at brightbrightbright.com
Dark Dark Dark Remix 7"
Supply and Demand Music
A 7-inch vinyl record with killer remixes of tracks from Dark Dark Dark's The Snow Magic by two Anticon recording artists - Dosh and Odd Nosdam. Online orders will also receive free downloads of bonus remixes: That Light (remixed by Paper Colt), Trouble No More (remixed by Ghostband), and Colors (remixed by Tom Inhaler).
Art by Christian Rex Van Minnen.
Limited to 1000 copies.
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Dark Dark Dark The Snow Magic
BLN001/SAD001 CD - $12
How to describe the sound of Dark Dark Dark? Rock fans say it's folk, folk purists say it's pop, and pop fans say it's weird. But somehow they all love its hauntingly hopeful, unabashedly melodic sound. Four acoustic instruments and four voices, at once familiar and strange.
Dark Dark Dark's first full-length album, The Snow Magic, showcases all the intricacies of their songwriting and arranging skills, as well as the exuberant energy of their performances. Infectious vocal harmonies are interwoven with accordion, banjo, cello, and bass sounds that veer between the nostalgic and the strikingly unconventional. Guest appearances by drummer Martin Dosh propel songs like Ashes, transforming the song's dark subject matter into a hopeful, devil-may-care, cabaret romp. Start to finish, this disc plays like the soundtrack to a surreal and romantic film.
The Snow Magic's national release is made possible by Supply and Demand Music.
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Dark Dark Dark Love you, bye. [VINYL]
BLN002V/Nero's Neptune - SOLD OUT
This limited edition vinyl release of Dark Dark Dark's Love you, bye EP is a collaboration between Blood Onion and Mark Trehus's Nero's Neptune label, a Minneapolis imprint specializing in vinyl releases with unique collectible packaging.
Only 25 copies of the record are available in the original packaging: genuine leather sleeves branded with custom made cattle brands by artist, Jay Heikes. 225 copies will be available in a traditional paper sleeve with a high quality photographic reproduction of the branded image.
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Dark Dark Dark Love you, bye. [CD]
BLN002/WAM004 CD
- OUT OF PRINT
The first official recording of Dark Dark Dark, this EP was recorded to analog reels in a few days. It captures the intimate live sound of the band playing together in a living room. The recording is co-released by What A Mess Records in Toulousse, France.
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Fall Harbor Songs from Fall Harbor
BLN003 CD
- $10
C. Ryder Cooley and Todd Chandler (bassist of Dark Dark Dark) bring us a set of forgotten ghost songs in their debut as Fall Harbor. Laced with accordion and banjo, these haunting tales of love, danger, and decay are set to fragile melodies that seem equally suited to singing around an oil-drum campfire or humming to yourself while you freeze to death in the woods.
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Spirits of the Red City Hunter Moon
CD - $10
We found out about Spirits of the Red City when frontman Will Garrison returned to Minneapolis after a sojourn in Alaska, overflowing with songs and inspiration. This band is an enormous crew of talented friends who take the spare bones of lonely folk songs and drape them with lush layers of strings, harmonies, accordion, and percussion. Highly recommended.
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The Blackthorns Crooked Feathers
7" Vinyl Record- $5
The Blackthorns are gone, but this lost recording captures the intensity that made them burn brightly and implode. Recorded to analog tape in a deconsecrated church in the dead of winter...
Hand-made custom packaging with 19" fold-out screenprinted poster, and custom-cut window sleeve. Limited edition of 200.
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The Blackthorns (s/t)
CD - $10
The only full release by this notorious five-piece orchestra. Led by the singular vocals of Christian Thaddeus Petty, The Blackthorns used viola, cello, banjo, bass, autoharp, drums, pipes, creaking chairs, saws, and who knows what else to make their lush and eerie sound...
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Woodcat (s/t)
CD - $10
Before his life in Dark Dark Dark, Marshall Lacount was in a band called Woodcat, along with Kirstin Grieve and Matt Lilyquist. Woodcat was a notorious fixture in the Minneapolis basement folk scene for a couple of years before disbanding.
On their self-titled release, dark dirges meet propulsive electronic drum beats and cello screams. These are anxious tales of impossible hope and latent violence.
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