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Artist
Darkplace
12+ albums
about
Darkplace is an anonymous art-project that emerged on the music scene with impressive presence and storytelling earlier this year. The music is rooted in post punk, but incorporates a variety of other genres in ist sound, among which Experimental Rock, Alt-Pop and Shoegaze are prominent. The debut album 'About the End of the World' is a monumental release, speaking not only through the medium of sound, but also through stunningly glum digital paintings and animations. The concept behind the album is set in a grim future, or perhaps present, where the world is depicted through imagery inspired by real life places, mostly centred around the bleak landscape of Stockholm's east suburbs - but with a dark, imaginative twist. The debut single 'Arken över Hesselby' translates to 'The Ark Over Hesselby' and portrays an alternative version of the Stockholm suburb "Hässelby". The music video shows us a familiar cityscape, haunted by an unknown arc watching from the sky. The story continues in second single 'Fearmonger', where we bear witness to the fate of a lone foot soldier as he faces the ominous skyship. Third single 'Cars' tells the story of a man travelling north, following cryptic messages written on highway signs that mysteriously only shows up in the blast of his headlights. the last single 'This Is Loud' , brings us back full circle to yet another Stockholm suburb, this time in the south, where the jarring presence of huge stone crosses terrorizes the population. "I couldn’t
