You often hear screenwriters talking about how a song or album can inspire an entire movie. Just one song? The entire film is built around that tune? Darker Circles by The Sadies is an album of those songs. As you listen, scenarios of filmic glow will come to life in your minds eye. You'll see a smoke filed bar, a crowded subway platform and the countryside of a land where nothing good has happened in a long time. The music creates this world perfectly – I think it’s an achievement of any band to help inspire ideas within other people’s minds
As body of musical work Darker Circles grabs you. From the first note it speaks to the listeners. Lyrics address us directly- constantly using the pronoun 'you' without any description of who that is specifically. It sounds like it matters more than anything else we've been listening to as culture.
The Sadies have been making great tunes for as long as I've been interested in great tunes, but Darker Circles seems to put moments in a bottle unlike anything that I've heard from them. The album is full of rock 'n' roll swagger, with country insecurities and that's not even the best part about it- the best part is how comfortable they sound playing these songs. This is the album The Sadies was meant to make.
As a Polaris Prize shortlister - Darker Circles achieved something for me that very few albums on this list have - it makes me forget I’m listening, because it so good to just hear it.
DAVE’S KEY TRACKS: ‘Another Year Again’; ‘Tell Her What I Said’; ‘Postcards’; ‘Violet and Jeffery Lee’; ’10 More Songs’
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