Label: Merge
Released 6/25/2021
Dark in Here was recorded the week between Getting Into Knives and Songs for Pierre Chuvin at FAME Studios, the Muscle Shoals institution that’s captured Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Gregg Allman, Bobby “Blue” Bland, and hundreds more. The always-creative Darnielle found new bursts of inspiration in the walls of the South's most famed studios, producing a gorgeous & tantalizing collection of songs with help from his trusted bandmates: Peter Hughes, Matt Douglas (Hiss Golden Messenger) & Jon Wurster (Superchunk, Bob Mould). Also along for the ride are Muscle Shoal studio legends like Spooner Oldham (Neil Young, John Prine, Bob Dylan) & Will McFarlane (Levon Helm, Candi Staton)
Track listing:
- Parisian Enclave
- The Destruction of the Kola Superdeep Borehole Tower
- Mobile
- Dark in Here
- Lizard Suit
- When a Powerful Animal Comes
- To the Headless Horseman
- The New Hydra Collection
- The Slow Parts on Death Metal Albums
- Before I Got There
- Arguing with the Ghost of Peter Laughner About His Coney Island Baby Review
- 12 Let Me Bathe in Demonic Light