Some Days Are Darker Fall Beyond Love’s Precipitous Apex on Shadowy “Dead Romance”
September 18, 2024
Some Days Are Darker has built a catalog chronicling this ceaseless pursuit in its many shades, from the virtuous to the carnal and the countless permutations that exist between, with a gaze resolutely fixed on achieving the endgame of a more perfect union.
On their latest single, the band explores the uncharted territory that comes in the wake of an uncoupling, diving headlong into the black for an emotionally charged journey deep into the recesses of a “Dead Romance.”
Gothic, post-punk tapestries of sound drape the composition in a sensual blackness at once both alluring and foreboding in their textural substantiality, framing the driving, rhythmic structure within dramatic aplomb. Swelling synths set the entire scene in billowing slow motion, haunted by crooning vocals that radiate and flicker like the glow of so many receding taper candles summoning spectral shadows to dance across the cold marble of the mausoleum floor.