I Know Everyone You Know

about this album

Recorded at the Brooksfield Gentleman’s Club in Detroit, MI. Produced, engineered, and mixed by Jonathan David Weier. Additional engineering by Adam Cox. Co-produced by Darling Imperial. Mastered by Dan Gonko at Cabin Creek Studios in Cullowhee, NC. Available for free download at http://bandcamp.darlingimperial.com *** Scouring the gulch of Detroit music, with all its weird indie experimentalism or electro-pop born from an almost reactionary distancing from the bluesy shred-garage stuff of early 00’s, one risks getting weird-genre-spliced-tunnel-vision and missing the band’s that are doing, radical as it sounds, more of a straight rock take – guitars, rolling rhythms, catchy choruses, blazing solos – the good ol chop, churn and burn. Not that that is merely what sextet Darling Imperial are all about – but it lessens the esoteric and puts focus on talent and collaboration. Particularly highlighted on their debut EP, I Know Everyone You Know, is the intertwining styles of each player. At its core, it has the soul, throaty growl and stage-side fist clenched feeling of those garage days, but reaching back to the jangly-fied melody-heavy rock of 60’s brit-pop. Take all this tambourine-tapped, hand-clapped, head-bopped goodness and give it the wings of classic 80’s new-wave college rock and add in rocket power of those burning grimace, pedal-pushed guitar solos and you get quite a swirled serum decanted into the cracks of this 6-song EP. Punchy beats, grooving rhythm guitars,

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