2019

Artist: Darla Smoking
Album: Extinct

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Slovenian duo Darla Smoking presents their third album.

Dark electronic elements, heavily processed exotic patterns and field recordings from different parts of the world take the album beyond the frames of ethno, dub and global sounds. The intersection of nine songs dedicated to creatures that have been facing extinction in the last hundred years is compounded by strong sound tension based on a multifaceted use of diverse effects and heavy rhythmic accents.

“Extinct” will try to awake and remind again that the battles against extinction from some decades ago are still there and haven’t been getting any attention and help in solving the situations. We still have Native Americans without their prairie, Tibetian people being forced to become Chinese, Maori and Aborigini tribes drowning in the big city’s slums, massacre in Amazonia and the last sheppard in Bulgaria who is being sucked into globalisation. It goes all the way to the plastic soundscape under the Arctic sea. All in all the new album will spit out the dying screams and helpless anger while we all quietly watch the world blow in our faces. Extinct is the new dead.

You can already download the album from Kapa Bandcamp (by name-your-price principle), it’s available on CD and you can also listen to it on any major streaming platform.
The cover of the album is the work of designer and visual artist Atlas Skull, with whom the band will participate in a multi-day residency at Gala Hala (Metelkova, Ljubljana) this week.
They will present their collab work live on Friday, November 22nd at the Promotional Concert at Gala Hala in Ljubljana.

________DARLA SMOKING LINKS:

– WWW
– BANDCAMP
– YOUTUBE
– FACEBOOK
– INSTAGRAM @darla_smoking

______KAPA RECORDS LINKS:
– FACEBOOK
– INSTAGRAM @kaparecords
– BANDCAMP

_____REVIEWS
Radio Študent / 100 decibelov
Dnevnik
Radio Študent / Svaštarnica
Radio Študent / Tolpa Bumov
Popscotch

_____Other:
Darla Smoking @ Gala Hala / concert review

Interview: Darla Smoking @ Kultura, RTV SLO