Unassuming yet intricate acoustic sections with banjo riffs that will make you smile, driving drum patterns that don’t hide behind unnecessary flash, and well-crafted arrangements that are nearly impossible to fault—these are some of the treats you’ll find in a Dark Mean record.
“…the song is a slow-burning folk/rock hybrid in which lush instrumentation enters in sequence, gradually building from ambience to guitar to percussion and drums, the impassioned vocals allowed to take centre stage in all their throaty glory.”