Darker My Love conjures up the spirits of pscyhedelia-fringed Beatles pop rock while always keeping a little dose of Country Rock on hand. Appropriately enough, the album, Alive As You Are, was recorded at the famed Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco. There’s a J.J. Cale sound to train track mosey pace of “Backseat.” The Byrds’ chiming guitar shows up for “Spitting Image.” A darker, bluesy side emerges for “18th Street Shuffle.” “New America” floats on a carnival wind blowing across a summer prairie. Imagine the Monkees doing something much more psychedelic for the jam of “Maple Day Getaway.” While the album comes from Dangerbird Records, it echoes much of what you might expect from those artists on Rainbow Quartz—psychedelic folk with echoes of the 60’s/70’s—while perhaps tapping more into that Country-influence.

Darker My Love
Dangerbird Records