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Start Of The World

by Dark Blue

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East Bay Working Class So I'm a bit confused by the " Post- Oi" and having Dark Blue in with the Oi or Skinhead music genres,but it doesn't change the fact that they are a great band. It reminds me of the great alt/ New Romantic ( another douchey term like Post- Oi or Shoe Gaze.....keeo gazing at my shoes and I'll brain you over the head with a crowbar......ha,ha- I kid,I kid-- no seriously-- jokes like that get you put on lists and shit) ANYWAY,they remind me of Joy Division,Depeche Mode,New Order,Echo & The Bunnymen,or the Cure if Robert Smith was really depressed and angry. While they remind me of bands I loved- Dark Blue is completely fresh and isn't a stale rehash of somebody else's music. I got an update today that they dropped something new and I'm looking forward to checking it out
This is a great band that capture a sound and feeling that has been absent in music for awhile. Check em out. Favorite track: Be Gone Everyone.
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VIN A band that just keeps on delivering. I'd love to purchase the vinyl edition but £17:50 p&p to the U.K. on top of the cost is a tad expensive. Favorite track: Tired Of The Poor.
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Dark Blue follow up their debut LP, ‘Pure Reality’, with ‘Start Of The World’ (12XU) – a soundtrack of a decaying United States. Each song drips with the realities of atrocities happening all around us ; John Sharkey III (Vocals, Guitar) pushes Dark Blue far beyond the post-punk meets oi sound they perfected on their earlier releases, and adds elements of brit-pop and shoegaze. Recorded by Jeff Zeigler (Kurt Vile, Nothing), ‘Start Of The World’ is a pop album that makes no apologies.

Boot stomping opener “Union of Buffoons,” sets the political tone for this album with an anthem for workers’ rights. Sharkey’s biting lyrics: “You can’t fight this, you can’t win…screw you once, they’ll screw you twice,” is a reference to human expendability in the face of deregulation and the stagnancy of labor rights. “Never Wanted to Hurt You” is a pop song in the highest order with guts and an undeniable chorus that would make Noel Gallagher jealous even at his most jaded.

The 50′s doo-woop and surf rock sound of “Bombs on the Beach” initially feels like a left turn for the band, evoking a playful innocence against a sunny backdrop. But the lyrics prove this is truly a Dark Blue song, tearing through any cheerfulness as jarring and abrupt as words can be to describe the reality of dropping missiles on a beach of unsuspecting Palestinian children. Sharkey’s voice is heavy with the despair of survivor’s guilt: “Now I’m holding my baby’s hand, as he lies bleeding to death in the sand.” This is another pointed song full of sentiment as much as it is an impassioned call for accountability for the crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip.

While this album shows off new and varying degrees of Sharkey’s vocal intensity, Andrew Mackie Nelson (Bass, Ceremony) and Michael Sneeringer (Drums, Strand of Oaks) shine, guiding the songs in ways other releases haven’t shown before . Tracks such as “Be Gone Everyone” and “Western Front” underscore just how comfortable the band has gotten.

‘Start Of The World’ is the kind of record that Dark Blue has always promised: a collection of smart, fully realized songs that tell real stories. With the world falling apart around us, Dark Blue continues to give voice to neglected perspectives, many unnerving but all necessary to hear. We need a defiant record like this to remind us that just as there was start to all of this destruction, there can also be an end.

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released November 4, 2016

Dark Blue is John Sharkey III, Andrew Mackie Nelson and Michael Sneeringer

Engineered and mixed by Jeff Zeigler at Uniform Recording
Mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Service
Layout and design by Jeff Kardos

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