'DARK.ROOM.NOTES - REVIEWS
'DRN
EDEL COFFEY, PHANTOM FM AND THE IRISH INDEPENDENT
'DARK ROOM NOTES, TRUE TO THEIR NAME, SING DARK SONGS OF OBSESSION, ADDICTION, LUST AND PASSION. DESPITE THIS THEY MANAGE TO BE STRANGELY UPLIFTING, THE SONG BUOYED ALONG ON A WAVE OF ELECTRO-INDIE AND MALE-FEMALE VOCALS CALLING TO MIND HUMAN LEAGUE AND JOY DIVISION. DARK ROOM NOTE ARE A SMART AND STYLISH YOUNG BAND, EXCITING AND EXHILIRATING WITH SOPHISTICATED TUNES TO BOOT.
'LIVE
VILLAGE
'WHEN THE BAND PLAY LIVE, OUTLANDISH ELECTRONIC SOUNDS EMANATE FROM THE STAGE. THE MOST RECENT GIG IN DUBLIN WAS IN CRAWDADDY, WHERE A PACKED-IN CROWD WAS THOROUGHLY ENTERTAINED WITH A BARNSTORMING SET, COMPLETE WITH DRAMATIC VISUALS AND LITTLE TIME TO BREATH BETWEEN STOMPING ELECTRO-ROCK TUNES.
IN DUBLIN
'ITS APPARENT WE'RE IN THE PRESENCE OF A BAND WHO DEMAND TO BE WATCHED WITH THE SAME INTENSITY THAT THEY APPLY TO THEIR PERFORMANCE AND WRITING... A PROFESSIONAL, COMMITTED AND THOROUGHLY WATCHABLE BAND. THIS DARK, SOPHISTICATED AND SUPERIOR HOMEGROWN POP IS PRECISELY WHAT OUR UNDERNOURISHED CHART HAS BEEN SCREAMING OUT FOR.
NME IRELAND
'DRN HAVE THE ROISIN DUBH BUZZING WITH A SENSE OF ANTICIPATION BORDERING ON THE FEVERISH... ENTHRALLED BY THE MUSICAL CONFLICT UNFURLING BEFORE OUR EYES THE CROWD GET IT ON DEEP ON THE DANCEFLOOR ANS THE CALM CONTROL OF THE ELECTRONIC ODYSSEY WINS OUT OVER THE PULSIING INDIE ROCK UNDERBELLY...SOME CORNER OF 2007 MUST SURELY BELONG TO DARK ROOM NOTES. YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST.
'DEAD START PROGRAM
SPUTNIKMUSIC.COM
'THE PRODUCTION VALUE ON THE FOUR SONGS THAT MAKE UP THEIR DEBUT EP, DEAD START PROGRAM, IS IMPECCABLE AND, HACKNEYED THOUGH THE 'INDIE ELECTRONIC' TAG HAS BECOME, THE GROUP DO HAVE SOMETHING OF A DISTINCTIVE SOUND, MAINLY DUE TO THE UNUSUAL (FOR THE GENRE) VOCALS OF SINGER/GUITARIST RONAN GAUGHAN.... IT DOES NEATLY SUM UP THE RANGE AND SONIC VERSATILITY DARK ROOM NOTES CAN DISPLAY IN A VERY SHORT SPACE OF TIME. THE INFLUENCES ARE OBVIOUS, BUT RARELY DO THE GROUP SOUND LIKE THEY'RE IMITATING THE GROUPS THEY REFERENCE. THE ONLY REAL COMPLAINT THAT CAN BE OFFERED ABOUT DEAD START PROGRAM IS THAT AT JUST FOUR TRACKS, AND FIFTEEN MINUTES, IT FEELS ALMOST LIKE A MEAL HALF-FINISHED, BEGGING FOR MORE. ****
MOTLEY
'BROODING DANCEABLE ELECTRO-ROCK SO COOL THAT IF THESE SONGS WERE PEOPLE WITH SUNGLASSES, THEY WOULD WEAR THOSE SUNGLASSES AT NIGHT.
MONGREL
'LIKE A HANDS-ON-ASS KISS IN THE BACK OF A STEAMY NIGHTCLUB, THE DARK ROOM NOTES EP STARTS OFF SLOW BUT GIVES YOU THE FEELING THAT AS THE NIGHT WEARS ON, YOU WILL PROBABLY GET LAID.... PRETTY SOON DRN WON'T NEED A QUICKIE WITH THE LIKES OF US.
'LOVE LIKE NICOTINE
THE IRISH TIMES - THE TICKET
'TWO YEARS AFTER THE SMOKING BAN, THIS DUBLIN QUARTET ARE STILL FEELING THE CRAVING. MIGHT AS WELL FACE IT, THEY'RE ADDICTED TO LOVE. WHAT BETTER WAY TO DISTRACT THE MIND THAN BY WRITING A KILLER INDIE-ROCK TUNE AND MAKING A VIDEO IN TEMPLE BAR THAT CLIMAXES IN A CHOREOGRAPHED LINE-DANCE ROUTINE A LA OK GO? IN A WORD, SMOKIN' ****
' SUPERB, DARK, DANCEABLE, FUNKY, SLEAZY, SYNTH-RIDDLED, UPTEMPO INDIE... FOR A DEBUT SINGLE ITS NOT ONLY SCARILY ACCOMPLISHED, BUT ALSO ONE OF THE BEST OF THE YEAR SO FAR.
HOT PRESS
'A CLASSY AND HUGELY PROMISING DEBUT FOR THIS ELECTRO-ROCK FOUR-PIECE. DARK ROOM NOTES ARE A WELCOME ADDITION TO OUR RADIOS - SHARP, EDGY, SEAMLESS ELECTRO ROCK. MORE OF THE SAME PLEASE.
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