Dark – Anonymous Days (Void) LP

Product Description

•Vinyl debut for band’s follow up to one of the greatest guitar-heavy psych records in the world, “Dark Round the Edges” (1972)
•Officially licensed by Dark, who will receive royalties from sales of this album
•Remastered and restored by Steve Giles for maximum brilliance

This will sell out fast. 500x copies on black vinyl, with insert

For the first time on vinyl, the killer second offering by UK Psych monsters Dark! “Anonymous Days” is the second studio album from Dark recorded 23 years after the first, the famous and highly collectable (and stone cold psychedelic classic) “Round the Edges” LP. The band’s line-up remains the same— Steve Giles, Ron Johnson, Martin Weaver and Clive Thorneycroft. “Anonymous Days” contains songs written between 1974 and 1995 and is the album that Dark always wanted to make, combining the Dark progressive rock style with more modern recording techniques. “The first album was recorded in about 24 hours, this one took an awful lot longer: that’s modern studios for you. The tracks are pure Dark combining complicated twin harmony guitar work with thought provoking lyrics and wide ranging musical structures. We thoroughly enjoyed getting back together again to write and rehearse after all those years, we even played a live gig in our home town of Northampton. At the start of the project Ron’s bass guitar was taken from the dust in his loft where it had lain undisturbed for over twenty years. After the album was finished he put it back in exactly the same place; ready for the next one?” —Martin Weaver, Northampton, England. June 2001. “Anonymous Days” was recorded between 1994-1996 at Outrider Studios Northampton, all tracks were composed between 1974-1995. Many of the songs were written in the wayback, some of them more recent but all Dark! This will sell out fast. 500x copies on black vinyl, with insert.

More from the band Dark on “Anonymous Days”: “Originally Mastered on 24-track tape, I had those transferred to multi-track WAV files and spent several months in early 2016 remixing and remastering those for this LP release. Unfortunately, with the 9 tracks running at a total of 54 minutes, this was too long to be written to vinyl without significantly reducing the bass response and overall audio quality of the tracks. To avoid this, the album needed to be shortened by at least 8 minutes. So, we made the very difficult decision to cut ‘A Hope Full Of Holes’. At over 8 minutes long, that meant we only had to cut one track, as opposed to two. We are hoping that this remixed version of the album will also be released on CD to include all nine tracks. For those of you who buy the LP and are missing the ‘lost’ track, you can download a full quality WAV file of it, free Of charge, by copying & pasting the link below into your browser: https://mega.nz/#!5lUm3CqR!stJMkEWV-rXPMc85PF0du37UQ2-9fntJbWePSocmSmg

Tracklist:

Side A:
01 All The Loving I Need 5:10
02 Madame La Guillotine 6:50
03 Miles And Miles Away 5:35
04 Shadow Of The Rain 3:20

Side B:
01 On Came The Midnight 6:26
02 Don’t Worry About That 5:02
03 Killing My Friends 5:46
04 Journey’s End 6:25

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