Dark Dazey and the progressive hybrid rock twists of "Pulse" (Official Visualizer Video)

 

"devil pulling at the strings / crossing chemicals inside..."

The progressive hybrid rock twists and cool hushed storytelling of "Pulse" by Los Angeles based psychedelic alt rockers Dark Dazey feels like a carnival maze with magic mirrors, some that are portals to elsewhere. I mean, there are so many surprises that you will likely have to listen to this elegant song at least a dozen times to be able to anticipate, remember where the song is going. The clipping cadence of "Pulse" a jazz rock spin with spying eyes and big sweeping kind of Pink Floyd-ian psychedelic waterfalls shift, rushes, move two steps back, turns and runs. If it were a movie, it would have multiple back stabs / double crosses and have a pivotal scene at a French disco. At one point it gets all kind of sludge metallic / doom goom with amazing drum fills and chaotic lead guitar breaks. It is the songs kind of grand guignol moment before settling into it's outro as credits roll. It is stunning stuff and sophisticated stuff all at the same time. 

LINER NOTES (bracketed):

[Described by the band as “contorting sensual psychedelia”, “Pulse” leads the listener through dark twisting corridors and melting disco dance floors to soaring explosions of sound. Dark Dazey effortlessly ropes together a variety of odd time signatures and interlocking rhythms that punctuate mystic lyrical depictions of human sexuality. Verses move with hypnotic melodic repetition and open up to a chorus of Floydian harmonies atop piano glissandos and shimmering synths. Across the nearly 6 minutes of music, the band commands an undulating form that fully reveals itself at 3:24. What was once waiting under the skin arrives as a torrent of distorting guitars, modulating synths, and massive bounding drum fills.]

Not sure where this poetically, sonically deep L.A. alt rock band will end up. I hope they are afforded all the opportunities they deserve. Five, maybe seven years from now I could see them performing with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra bolstering their sound. I have a feeling anyway. 

Cool.  

-Robb Donker Curtius

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Dark Dazey

Genre bending psychedelia from Los Angeles, California.

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