Psychic
Darkside, Nicolas Jaar’s partnership with guitarist Dave Harrington, follow their recent reimagination of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories with a fascinating, endlessly explorable debut. Psychic is translucent and dense, electrified and organic, holding a form while constantly being prodded into new shapes.
Nicholas Jaar and Dave Harrington join forces to create a living, breathing musical biosphere.
Darkside is the work of electro-pop minimalist composer Nicolas Jaar and Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington, which steeps Jaar's spacious solo work with brittle bursts of electronic distortion, watery drums, and slick neon guitar patterns.
The first full-length outing for Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington’s DARKSIDE project opens with Golden Arrow, 11 minutes of arrestingly beautiful ambient electronica, deftly embellished with Harrington’s muted guitar. Jaar’s astonishing ability to seamlessly meld techno, house and jazz within an uncanny, weightless soundworld remains in evidence; but Psychic manages to incorporate elements of prog- and post-rock, reflecting Harrington’s own influences, while still maintaining that characteristic sense of fluidity and cohesion.
This is the debut album from Darkside (a collaboration between American-Chilean producer-du-jour Nicolas Jaar and touring bandmate Dave Harrington), released on Jaar's Other People label, which was born out of the ashes of his now defunct Clown & Sunset imprint.
In their own incongruous way, Psychic's two creators do an admirable job of defining the sound of Darkside's debut LP. While Nicolas Jaar believed he was making an electronic record, Dave Harrington thought he was involved in a rock record.
Album review: Clash covers 'Psychic', the debut album from Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington's collaborative project, Darkside, released via Matador
Nicolas Jaar's collaboration with Dave Harrington blends deep digital music with electric guitars to winning effect, writes <strong>Kitty Empire</strong>
Nicolas Jaar is usually classified as an electronic musician. But he doesn’t see things that way
Review of "Psychic" the new album from DARkSIDE featuring Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington. "Psychic" comes out October 8th on Matador/other People Records.
Nicolas Jaar's new album, a collaboration with guitarist Dave Harrington, is a solemn, autumnal affair, and terrific with it, writes <strong>Alex Macpherson</strong>