Originally written by Mike Diver · 5 August 2008
Returning after a brief break following the release of This Is My Ship (review) last year, Teesside trio Dartz! step back to the fold with the their politely-sized new mini-album, The Sad History Of The Village Of Alnerique, out on Xtra Mile Recordings on September 22.
Speaking about the release, guitarist Henry J. Carden said thus:
“For all of our old songs, the writing process basically consisted of us working on the music first and then once that was sorted, we’d work on the lyrics. For this release though, Philip had written some words and we thought it’d be interesting to try and write some music which suited the lyrics. It was a different approach for us but I think it’s resulted in The Sad History Of… being a much more cohesive collection of songs than any of our past releases.”
The Sad History Of The Village Of Alnerique runs:
‘The Arrival, Building Alnerique’ ‘Oskar and Ofelia’ ‘A New Venture from Mordecai & Sons’ ‘The Clandestine Choir’ ‘What Happens to Places Where Spaces Should Be’ ‘The Lay of the Land’ ‘Embers’ ‘The End, Moving On’
The trio also have these dates inked in:
September 17 Edinburgh The GRV 18 Sunderland The White Rooms 19 Leeds Cockpit 20 London The Luminaire 21 Southend Chinnerys