Darling Darkness by Beerjacket
'Darling Darkness' is the brand new studio album by Beerjacket.
#8 Scot Album 2014 - The Herald
"This time last year, Peter Kelly (aka Beerjacket) was stealing the show at Celtic Connections' Roaming Roots Revue with a cover of Atlantic City, backed by an ensemble that crammed more personnel on stage than the E Street Band itself. Usually, however, Kelly's stripped-back, wonderfully melodic Beerjacket output is a more affectingly intimate experience. Second studio album Darling Darkness picks up from where 2011's The White Feather Trail left off, filling out the space between Kelly's voice and guitar with soft backing vocals by Louise Connell (Reverieme) and Julia Doogan, and additional playing by producer Stuart MacLeod. The footstomp heartbeat of Antlers is the perfect antidote to that stagnant Mumford sound; Two Travel slips in and out of minor chords as Kelly shifts his writing up a gear; End Of The Day even has an echo of Morrissey and Marr about it. This is folk music with roots in the 1960s, but it is never copycat or backward-looking: Kelly sits at the modern end of a long tradition, writing songs that would be equally at home in Greenwich Village or on the T Break stage."
Alan Morrison, Glasgow Herald
"no matter how much music you listen to, you rarely stumble across a musical approach that does not wear its influences on its sleeve. these songs speak in their own language." (Kristin Hersh)
Julia Doogan (Julia and the Doogans) and Louise Connell (Reverieme) guest on vocals.
Producer Stuart MacLeod, who also recorded 2011's critically-acclaimed 'The White Feather Trail', sings and plays guitar, mandolin and percussion.
Tracklist
| 1. | Antlers | 3:00 |
| 2. | Two Travel | 3:48 |
| 3. | Glow | 3:09 |
| 4. | Dog Day Star | 3:06 |
| 5. | Cape | 3:03 |
| 6. | Snowball | 3:04 |
| 7. | End of the Day | 2:40 |
| 8. | Keys | 3:49 |
| 9. | The Story Of | 3:06 |
| 10. | Pelican | 2:42 |
| 11. | Men | 2:24 |
Credits
Recorded and mixed between April-December, 2013 by Stuart MacLeod at Beetroot Studios, Airdrie.
All songs written by Peter Kelly.
License
All rights reserved.
Beerjacket is Scottish singer/songwriter, Peter Kelly, who has opened for The National, St Vincent, Kristin Hersh & Frightened Rabbit.
In 2018, Scottish Fiction released album/book of songs & short stories, Silver Cords, leading to an appearance at Edinburgh International Book Festival, a sold-out show with Cairn String Quartet at Celtic Connections, & radio play from BBC Radio 6 Music and KEXP.