My Review: Dark Narrows - My Last Party

 Dark Narrows - My Last Party 

Here are the shadows of Maryland encircling the wind and bringing crumbs of electrified post-punk to the shores of a pulsing call. They return, enchant, chill breaths, tergiversate, and lead our listening on a leash to the earthly field of continuous, amplified spasms.

The need to affirm the identity of sound passes through stratagems that employ electronics as a putative father, the governing of impulse with the schematic school that right in the heart of Maryland (1978) had shown a new way forward.

Musical notes like gothic sweat moving on keyboards oxygenated by restlessness and bewilderment, circular, never mutant, always constant, travelling within themselves.

How far have these guys come? Perhaps you may have heard their magnificent cover of Desire, by The Sound. Well: in this disc you will hear their steps become authoritative, disengaged from comparisons, from the need for affirmations, and instead find a wrapping with their sound, rhythm, melodic traits that are absolutely delicious and whose importance must be recognised. A growing band, ranging and sowing pulses full of fermenting liquids that stop the discomfort of living, telling it like it is. Thus we find highly muscular uprisings, hydrating systems of rebellion that find in the guitar loops great forests to take in, with the bass pulling slaps and cleaning up the misunderstandings of stupid comparisons. It is a spectacular album, a soulful voice that overthrows identity on melodic lines that are always reduced to the bone, a sublime diet that empties and detoxifies listening from any drift composed of stupid excesses. 

My Last Party is not made up of episodes, but of a strategic line given by a summa that expands and forms a nucleus on which everything that enters becomes polite and relevant: there are few who do this and they do it damn well!

Everything is electric discharge, beat after beat that informs and kneads ideas and needs in order to launch an attack that, compulsive and atrocious, makes this work an absolute gem...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

17th March 2023

https://darknarrows.bandcamp.com/album/my-last-party