Stephanie Rearick, Jr. w/ Diana Darby - $6

Friday, May 4, 2012

Stephanie Rearick Jr. -- Stephanie Rearick\'s latest project features her with her casio, trumpet and loop pedal. Some will be familiar to her fans but bunches of new, too and it is different enough to require its own name.

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Diana Darby-s I V (intravenous) is a brand new album of songs that have passed through seven years of fire in a real life, retaining what Pitchfork called \"minimal, whispered rendition(s)\" of \"powerfully fatalistic evaluations of hope.\" I V is flooded with the full promise bled out previously on revealing, critical favorites Fantasia Ball and The Magdalene Laundries and is sure to lovingly reconnect Darby to her fervent cult, as much as entrance an entirely new crowd of noir-folk fans.

Though living in Nashville for the past several years, Darby returned to New York in 2011 to record new songs inspired by a staggering amount of blues-creating circumstances. Her guitar and vocal tracks were cut live from ferociously focused single takes. Additional instruments and harmonies were added back home. The result is a nuanced, intense, gorgeous full-length album with top-notch studio players (Viktor Krauss, Dan Dugmore, and David Henry) adding to Diana-s vision.