Music:
Member Since: 27/02/2005
Band Members: Arm plays drums and bakes cakes.
Jeremy sings, plays guitar and sits at home.
Matt plays bass and builds stereo equipment.
Tat sings, plays guitar and collects records.
Influences: '50 style doo-wop, surf rock, punk, Weezer, Screeching Weasel, The Ramones.Secondary influences include Elvis Costello, Super Chunk, The Alkaline Trio, Pavement, Pixies, The Like Young, Teenage Fanclub, Guided by Voices, Sonic Youth, Fugazi, Iron Maiden, The Smoking Popes, The Teen Idols, The Queers, Big Stars, Built to Spill, Superdrag.
THE DARLINGS
Sounds Like: Distorted fuzz and incompetence. The Pop-Punk/Nerd-Rock do-wop power balladeers otherwise known as The Darlings don’t leave much room for objectivity: their music – best described as ‘sugar-snaps marinated in a can-o-whoopass’ – provides a purely visceral buzz, kinda like downing half-rack of Mountain Dew while inner-tubing, pellet gun in hand. Their live shows can best be described as “four demure boys getting metalheads and knee-sock clad P-rock Lolitas to chime along to the ‘oh-oh-oh-whao-wo-oh’ choruses of catchy, mid-tempo anthems (‘Faraway’, ‘Worse’), and tear it up for the hook-filled shredders (‘Who’s The Asshole’, their newest and, possibly, best song).†Comparisons to Weezer abound – it’s probably the slow song/fast song switch off, the fuzzy wall-of-guitar and root-noted bass sound, or, maybe, lead-singer Jeremy’s thick-rimmed specs. But The Darlings are less a self-conscious Power Pop formula band, and more of a straight-from-the-heart stab at the mantle of primal, four-chord rock ’n’ roll.- Nak Ling / The Eastbound Downers
Record Label: Panda
Type of Label: Indie
