{"id":8233,"date":"2013-12-31T16:27:52","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T16:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=8233"},"modified":"2013-12-31T16:27:52","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T16:27:52","slug":"the-darcys-warring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/12\/31\/the-darcys-warring\/","title":{"rendered":"The Darcys \u2013 Warring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/12\/31\/the-darcys-warring\/darcys12\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8234\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8234\" alt=\"darcys12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/darcys12-296x300.jpg\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the tracklist alone, the Darcys evoke imagery of war \u2013 \u201cHorses Fell,\u201d \u201cThe Pacific Theatre,\u201d \u201cHunting,\u201d \u201cMuzzle Blast,\u201d \u201cLost Dogfights\u201d \u2013 but what exactly are they at war with?<!--more--> Many bands releasing their third album would be at war with themselves, struggling to find a sound that is both similar to and an evolution from their beginnings. But the Darcys seem confident in their sound, an often weighty and kinetic blast led by the indeed militaristic drumming that evokes the finer moments of Bloc Party. The sound is dense in a way that doesn\u2019t suggest over instrumentation or unnecessary production, but rather thoughtfulness.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">One should beware a band that describes themselves as \u201cart rock\u201d \u2013 there\u2019s a pretension that comes with it. Whatever their aim might have been in describing themselves in such a way, the Darcys manage to create an album that functions as a whole piece without bogging down in pretenses of grand art. There\u2019s no clear single here; it\u2019s an album that does function best as a full beginning-to-end listen.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">So who is at war? There is a lot of \u201cyou\u201d and \u201cyours\u201d and \u201cours\u201d thrown around, so it\u2019s maybe fair to assume that there\u2019s a torn relationship here. The war may be less important than the outcomes though. For all the battles, the album begins with \u201cI\u2019m slipping \/ everything so quickly\u201d in \u201cClose to Me,\u201d but by closing track \u201cLost Dogfights\u201d we are left the words \u201cYou made your bed \/ now sleep in it.\u201d Just as our narrator has grown and become more confident, so too have the Darcys in their sound \u2013 and it shows. (Arts &amp; Crafts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts-crafts.ca\/\">arts-crafts.ca<\/a> ) <strong>Devin King<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the tracklist alone, the Darcys evoke imagery of war \u2013 \u201cHorses Fell,\u201d \u201cThe Pacific Theatre,\u201d \u201cHunting,\u201d \u201cMuzzle Blast,\u201d \u201cLost Dogfights\u201d \u2013 but what exactly are they at war with?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[962,1056],"class_list":["post-8233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-the-darcys","tag-utn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}