Three Days Dark - Three Days Dark (2013)
Three Days Dark is the solo project of
Trent Halliday, who, in addition to performing everything on this
self-titled debut album, also handled recording and production work,
all of it taking place in his living room over the summer of 2013.
As a result, there's a little lo-fi sound to the material, but it
gives the music a nice sense of character, meshing nicely with the
stone-groove guitar, drums with a little grit to their skins, and Mr.
Halliday's vocals, with which he takes care to provide some point and
counter-point to the instruments' rhythms and cadences with an almost
immediately-familiar vocal style.
The psychedelic flavors are in effect
from the moment the album begins, but things start off with enough
room to twist around into some wild shapes along the way, though it
never loses that sense of cool laid-back summer-time contentment;
there's also a strong (though not over-played) sense of bluesiness to
the music, with chords scratching along in their own time and
occasionally slipping off into strains of nostalgia or wistfulness. There's a lot here for your ears to chew on, with some excellent use of pedals to bring to guitar to the fore in a number of ways, warbling, phasing, or giving it some toothsome buzz, and then making a solid brain-reeling groove out of it.
You can pick the album up for 'name
your own price,' but for those who prefer a physical copy of their
musical acquisitions, you're in luck; Three Days Dark
is also available on CD, though in limited quantities of its limited
edition. You can find both versions of the music over at Three Days
Dark's BandCamp page, so if you need some tasty mellow psychedelia to
season your summer, swing on by and snag yourself a copy for high
times.
~
Gabriel
For
Fans Of; Groggy, early Black Sabbath, 13th
Floor Elevators, Blue Cheer, Ten Years After
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