TWOFR: Dark Skies x Red & Gold
Dark Skies
Self Titled
(Empty Records, 2006)
Ya know, I love the MC5, but I don’t really need them name dropped every ten minutes (this was an example of name dropping to ensure my credibility). The trio that is Dark Skies draw from that pool of rock and release an album of music easily surpassed by the cover art. I’m pretty confident that living in the sixties and seventies would have provided me with a great deal of fun, so I can understand the affinity bands have for attempting to recreate that time through notes. Each track of this recreation has positive elements, whether it’s the funky bass, a musical freak-out or guitar screeches, but when taken as a whole, the album falls short of anything that could be listened to more than once, or even once all the way through. Empty Records is toying with our emotions folks. The general public will be exposed to The Reatards or some other viable act and then we’re given Dark Skies. Mr. Empty Records Label Boss, we want to love you, but give us a reason.
