Dark Horses are an Alternative Rock group from Brighton who list their influences as The Velvet Underground, PJ Harvey, Can and Gang of Four. That, and their name, a classic one for a band, (given all its connotations), were enough to persuade me to give their third album, While We Were Sleeping a listen at the start of my morning.
It's a suitably dark record, with plenty of murky depth on show, and all seems rather 'adult' if that's what you're after. Such a term,, probably has as many negative implications as positive ones.
For whatever reason Dark Horses have not been active in terms of releasing records, since their debut in 2013. While We Were Sleeping is their first since the following year and certainly hints at a prolonged, drawn out processes.
Listening to it was a rewarding process, though I'm not entirely sure I'll be inclined to return to it as it's certainly not an easy listening experience, in the way that an hour with PJ rarely is. I would recommend it though, as it's a work a lot of thought and intense effort has been put into ad this has certainly resulted as a set of gifts that require unwrapping..
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