Darker My Love was a psychedelic rock band based in Los Angeles, California. Presley and
Granelli were playing in other punk-influenced bands (both played in the Nerve Agents together, Granelli also spent time with the Distillers) when they joined forces with bassist/vocalist Rob Barbato and guitarist Jared Everett, both transplants from Boston. Within the space of a series of excellent live gigs, though, all four players committed to nurturing what was to become a signature bright-but-brooding sound, and Darker My Love, as a tight unit with major potential, was born.
After a string of opening dates for the Kills, the Warlocks, and Icarus Line, the band recorded a three-
song EP released in early 2006. Will Canzoneri joined the band on organ and clavinet in the latter half of 2006. The band released three LPs and one EP. Presley is also a visual artist responsible for much of the band's imagery.
Their first LP, recorded in 2005, was released on August 22, 2006, on Dangerbird Records. In spring 2006, Presley and Barbato became members of the prolific British post-punk group the Fall, and both are prominent on the Fall's 2007 album Reformation Post TLC.
The second Darker My Love album, 2, was released on Dangerbird Records on August 5, 2008. Several
songs from the album gained prominence through licensing in television, commercials and video games. The band's third LP, recorded in Northern California in January 2010 and entitled Alive As You Are, was released on July 26, 2010, in the UK and August 17, 2010, in North America. While touring for 2, Andy Granelli left the band to focus on his family and was replaced by Brian Jonestown Massacre drummer Dan Allaire. Their third album, Alive as You Are, was released in 2010.
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Tim Presley – guitar/vocals (2004–2010)
Andy Granelli – drums (2004–2009)
Rob Barbato – bass/vocals (2004–2010)
Jared Everett – guitar (2004–2010)
Will Canzoneri – organ/clavinet (2006–2010)
Dan Allaire – drums (2009–2010)
ALBUMS
Darker My Love (2006, Dangerbird Records)
2 (2008, Dangerbird Records)
Alive As You Are (2010, Dangerbird Records)
DARKER MY LOVE - DARKER MY LOVE 2006
On their self-titled debut full-length CD, Los Angeles quartet Darker My Love set up a series of distorted hard rock soundscapes. Guitarists Tim Presley and Jared Everett play fuzzed-out, shimmering
riffs over the pounding rhythm section of bassist Rob Barbato and drummer Andy Granelli, as Presley and Barbato sing in echoed unison vocals. But the words and even the songs per se are less important than the overall sound, a powerful wall of noise. Sometimes, the pace slows, notably on "Catch," before revving up for the album's most forceful rocker, the closer "Summer Is Here." At whatever tempo, however, it's the sustained assault of the players that makes the strongest impression.
Darker My Love – Darker My Love
Label: Dangerbird Records – DGB010
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: Aug 22, 2006
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Shoegaze
TRACKS
01. Opening 3:39
Written-By – T.Presley
02. What's A Man's Paris 3:23
Written-By – Darker My Love
03. Helium Heels 3:49
Written-By – Darker My Love
04. Post Mortem, Post Boredom 2:32
Written-By – R.Barbato
05. Wake 1:05
Written-By – R.Barbato
06. Fall 3:05
Written-By – Barbato, Presley
07. Hello Traveler 4:22
Written-By – T.Presley
08. Claws & Paws 4:14
Written-By – Darker My Love
09. Catch 4:14
Written-By – T.Presley
10. People 2:52
Written-By – R.Barbato
11. I Feel Fine 3:02
Written-By – R.Barbato
12. Summer Is Here 3:20
Written-By – Barbato, Presley
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Vocals – Rob Barbato, Tim Presley
Bass – Rob Barbato
Drums – Andy Granelli
Guitar – Jared Everett, Tim Presley
Flac Size: 272 MB
DARKER MY LOVE - 2 2008
Want an album you won't stop playing? Try the second LP -- imaginatively titled 2 -- of this Tim
Presley-led L.A. fivesome. Put it this way: 2 totally lives up to the grand standard of the 1983 Suburbia movie song "Darker My Love" by America's Damned, L.A.'s T.S.O.L. An upgrade over their eponymous 2006 debut and two EPs, 2 benefits from better songwriting, singing, playing, production...everything.
Half of it is merely excellent (like the opening two, oddly lesser songs mining the Jesus and Mary
Chain and BRMC), and the other half is fantastic. Fired by some surprisingly top-notch harmonies -- this era's lost art -- riding herd over reverberating shoegaze guitars à la Creation (MBV, Slowdive, Ride), 4AD (Pale Saints, Lush), and Rough Trade (Boo Radleys), 2 is filled with dripping sugar-pop melodies and harmonic developments that usher in a neo-psych world of wonder. We've been waiting eons for a U.K. dream pop band this good, post-Doves. Who'd have thought it'd come from the U.S.?
Darker My Love – 2
Label: Dangerbird Records – DGB027
Format: CD, Album, Digipak
Country: US
Released: Aug 5, 2008
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Indie Rock
TRACKS
01. Northern Soul 4:08
Shaker – Steven Rhodes
02. Blue Day 4:11
03. Two Ways Out 3:23
04. Pale Sun 4:34
05. White Composition 2:45
06. Add To The Other One 4:38
07. Even In Our Lightest Day 3:43
Percussion – Orpheo McCord
08. All The Hurry And Wait
Arranged By [Strings And Brass] – Will Canzoneri 6:11
Cello – Richard Dodd - French Horn – Stephanie O'Keefe
Trombone [Tenor And Bass] – Bruce Otto
Viola – Leah Katz
Violin – Daphne Chen, Eric Gorfain
09. Waves 2:15
10. Talking Words 3:14
11. Immediate Undertaking 6:11
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Vocals, Guitar – Tim Presley
Vocals, Bass – Rob Barbato
Bells – Timm Boatman
Drums – Andy Granelli
Engineer – Steven Rhodes
Guitar – Jared Everett
Layout – Sara Cumings
Mastered By – Alan Yoshida
Mixed By – Tony Hoffer
Organ, Clavinet – Will Canzoneri
Producer – Dave Cooley
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