Darlingside - Don Mitchell, Auyon Mukharji, Harris Paseltiner, and David Senft - interviewed by Music-News.com editor - Marco Gandolfi - at Music News' North London HQ on 31st January 2018.
Darlingside also played an exclusive session of new single 'Hold Your Head Up High' & 'The Best Of The Best Of Times'.
Recorded with 2x RØDE NTG1 shotgun microphones and the RØDE AI-1.
Darlingside's remarkable new album 'Extralife' is the follow up to the band's European breakthrough debut release, the widely praised 'Birds Say', which led to a meteoric live success story in the UK. During three sold out tours, the band's unique performances brought instant adoring fans, tracing a rise from the unexpected 2016 mainstage performance at Cambridge Folk Festival through to the Summer of 2017 with a TV performance live from GLASTONBURY on BBC 2 TV and a triumphant, sold out London UNION CHAPEL show which garnered rave reviews.
The band will launch 'Extralife' in the UK at an intimate, sold out show on January 30th 2018 at London's Courtyard Theatre.
Where 'Birds Say' was steeped in childhood nostalgia and the loss of innocence, 'Extralife' finds Darlingside looking to the future with an almost post-apocalyptic view. They explore hard truths from societal issues and politics to environmental concerns and religious tensions as catalysts for the life to which we could potentially be destined. At the core of 'Extralife' the deepest questions remain: does anything we do matter or make a difference? Are we resigned to fate or are we able to change the future? While the subject matter may seem bleak, it is addressed with artistic beauty and grace and 'Extralife' is not without an underlying sense of hope and optimism.
Debut album 'Birds Say' marked the arrival of an eclectic, intelligent and dynamic band ("…exquisitely-arranged, literary-minded, baroque folk-pop." -NPR Music). Darlingside stretched the boundaries of folk, chamber pop, baroque and indie rock by melding the various styles together and creating something not easily categorised and very much their own.
With 'Extralife', they continue to move forward. Pensive and poetic lyrics are delivered with divine harmonies reminiscent of the Beach Boys, Fleet Foxes and Simon & Garfunkel. Seamless vocals and masterful musicianship create an ambient, dreamlike atmosphere. In concert, Darlingside - Don Mitchell, Auyon Mukharji, Harris Paseltiner, and David Senft - is unique; the merging of their four voices into a single microphone and instrumental interplay is something to behold. Their undeniable charm and wit only endearing them further to anyone who sees them.
'Extralife' track listing: 01.Extralife 02.Singularity 03.Futures 04.Hold Your Head Up High 05.Eschaton 06.Old Friend 07.Lindisfarne 08.The Rabbit and the Pointed Gun 09.Indian Orchard Road 10.Rita Hayworth 11.Orion 12.Best of the Best of Times
