Writers Like “Pink Light”
Two Dark Bird’s latest single “Pink Light” was released on May 30. Reviewers have been very kind. Here’s just a couple…
From Big Takeover
Nothing gives me more pleasure in my working day spent writing about music than finding myself faced with a band doing something different from the mainstream, comfort-zoned, conformist pack. Not that Two Dark Birds are quite ripping up the rulebook; after all, they are using the sonic structures and building blocks that are readily available to everyone else. But what they are doing is putting those musical elements together in new ways, and to very satisfying ends…
From Essentially Pop
‘Pink Light’ opens with a minimalist electronic instrumentation that soon gives way to strummed acoustic guitars and bustling drums, steel guitars, and hazy harmonies. It’s a shimmering vision of the forest, bathed in the pink light of a February morning. Close your eyes, to the point where just the merest slits are open, and you will be able to visualise the sunbeams breaking through, over the ridgeline, coming down the mountain…
From Beats Per Minute
Hailing from The Catskills, cosmic folk and avant pop collective Two Dark Birds are keenly interested in how best to unmoor themselves from any given musical antecedents. They conspire to create a bit of rural theatricality which doesn’t succumb to twangy opulence or melodic banality. Listening to their work is akin to wandering through a fog-draped forest, feeling the light touch of nature with every step and finding truly miraculous things in the places that others fail to notice. They’ve developed a sort of kaleidoscopic dialogue among themselves, a rhythmic grammar that informs and directs their arcadian experiments.
Their forthcoming album, Dreamers of the Golden Dream, will find them further loosening the genre associations of their previous releases. The band’s new single, “Pink Light”, is a perfect example of this creative fluidity, as it blends art pop electronics with indie rock determination: imagine Bryan Ferry fronting Cut Copy with a bit of Talking Heads thrown in for good measure. It develops a kinetic language that is effortlessly experienced but is difficult to fully master. And despite the allusions to other artists, it truly does feel like a singular expression of their combined imaginations.