Label: self-release
Genre: Post-Punk
Format: 7"
Year: 1982 US press
Condition: NM/M - dead stock
A couple of deadstock copies of this early 80s curio of post-punk synth outsiderness just in. Remarkable this stuff keeps turning up - after all this time and digging around there’s people out there still unearthing some crucial unknowns. I can find very little info on who Dark Nights were (you might have more time than me: please educate if so), but we're certainly in the 1982 sweetspot here, four tracks that mix post-Suicide minimal wave austerity, a little European elegance that suggests at least one eye on the Risiko, and an overall sense of post-punk autodidactism that allows it to stand firmly apart. The titular track is especially odd, a mysterious blur of military percussion and blown-out-but-muted electronics that supposes a relatively avant mindset at play. No run of the mill business, this. The only other surprise is that Dark Entries haven’t reissued it already.
