We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Vicious Romance

by Dark Blue

/
  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of Vicious Romance via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days

      $5 USD or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $2 USD  or more

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 8 Dark Blue releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Victory Is Rated, Fight To Love, Start Of The World, Red, White + Dark Blue, Vicious Romance, Pure Reality, Just Another Night With The Boys, and Subterranean Man. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      $30.75 USD or more (25% OFF)

     

1.
2.
Delco Runts 05:07

about

After three releases in 2014, Philadelphia’s Dark Blue return with two songs about blue collar depression in a changing Philadelphian landscape for their debut 7″ on 12XU. While the previous releases hinted at the pop tendencies of Dark Blue, this new single finally embraces them fully.

A-side “Vicious Romance” finds leader John Sharkey III coming to grips with letting go of an unsustainable dream. Whether that dream be romantic love , or the idea the “romantic” dream a certain country paints only to instead cause pain, grief, and bloodshed to Palestinians and Arab Jews. It’s a love song in the highest order and with all great love songs, it stays in your head and leaves you breathless.

Flip-side “Delco Runts” is a love (or hate) letter to Delaware County. As Sharkey explains, “It’s a place that toughens you fast. Far harder to succeed than Philadelphia proper. The peril is real but unassuming to the initiated. It’s crushed your chances of being a real person before you even know it.” If you ever wondered what it might be like if Oasis, Discharge, and John Cale got pissed and started a band together, “Delco Runts” is your answer.

Dark Blue is the sound of unrelenting confidence in a bleak world. We are lucky to have them to remind us that we can still make it through it all.

credits

released January 15, 2016

John Sharkey III - Voice, Guitars
Andrew Mackie Nelson - The Bass Guitar
Mike Sneeringer - The Drums

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Dark Blue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Absolute Cunts, Proper Legends.

contact / help

Contact Dark Blue

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Dark Blue, you may also like: