Darlingside
Schedule
Fri, 17 Mar, 2023 at 07:30 pm
Location
The Bishop | Bloomington, IN
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This event has been moved to The Bishop located at 123 S. Walnut St. All current ticket holders have been contacted via phone and email. Additional will-call instructions listed below.If Darlingside’s first album, Birds Say (2015), focused on the past through nostalgia, and their second, Extralife (2018), contemplated uncertain futures, Fish Pond Fish stands firmly in the present, looking at what’s here, now. The band has created a natural history in song—taking us into gardens, almond groves, orchard rows, down to the ocean floor and under stars.
Darlingside has long been praised for their harmonies and intelligent songwriting, described by NPR as “exquisitely-arranged, literary-minded, baroque folk-pop,” and their dynamic presence (crowded tightly together onstage) have made them a live-performance favorite. But this album showcases their broader storytelling abilities: nature is a looking glass, the songs suggest, with tracks like Ocean Bed, Green + Evergreen, Mountain + Sea, and Crystal Caving making metaphors of their titles. An experience of nature is an experience of self; an experience of self is one of natural change cut and complemented by stasis.
The band started studio recording Fish Pond Fish in late 2019, when they moved into Tarquin Studios—the residential studio of Grammy Award-winning producer Peter Katis (Interpol, The National). Living and working together brought them to their very early years under one roof in Hadley, Massachusetts, which had seeded the origins of their intimate collaboration. At Katis’s suggestion, many components of the initial demos were preserved as layers in the produced tracks to retain the spirit of the initial recordings, resulting in a collection of songs that is simultaneously the most bedroom-tracked and production-heavy full-length album that the band has yet released.
Will-call will be available to pick up at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater during regular box office hours until 5pm the day of the show. After 5pm will-call will be available at 7pm when doors open at the Bishop. The Bishop is an 18+ venue.
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The Bishop, 123 S Walnut St,Bloomington,IN,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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