NOTHING

Nothing is the third album from DARKSIDE: nine transmissions of negative space, telepathic seance, and spectral improvisation. It fittingly started from scratch. On their first two reinventions, Nicol s Jaar and Dave Harrington entered the studio with a clutch of scattered ideas and loose melodic fragments to mould into what became the revered 'Psychic'(2013) and 'Spiral' (2021). But 'Nothing' reflected a search for form borne out of spontaneous elliptical jams, acoustic riffing, and digital levitations. And in a fundamental shift from their
first dozen years as a band, Jaar and Harrington recruited their longtime friend and
collaborator, the drummer and instrument designer Tlacael Esparza, to become a full-time member. The outcome is magnetic and hieroglyphic. This album slips through the cracks of
convention with serpentine guitars, extraterrestrial static, and cavernous drums. Haunted
rhythms, distorted vocals, and uncanny beauty. No band but DARKSIDE could have made
'Nothing,' and in no moment but now.