Pure Reality Dark Blue SKU: JT1136LP Barcode: 792258113617 16.00 £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Jade Tree Released Date: 13th October 2014 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info For Fans Of: Joy Division, The Comsat Angels, The Stone Roses, Blitz, The Smiths. Features current & ex members of Ceremony, Strand of Oaks, Paint it Black, Clockcleaner, Puerto Rico Flowers, Purling Hiss. Recorded & Produced by Jeff Zeigler (Kurt Vile, War on Drugs, Sunny Day in Glasgow, Nothing) Press coverage: Billboard, Rockarolla, Rocksound, Kerrang, Spin, Pitchfork, AV Club, Stereogum, Noisey, Brooklyn Vegan, Village Voice & more. Philadelphia super trio Dark Blue consisting of John Sharkey III (Clockcleaner, Puerto Rico Flowers) Andrew Mackie Nelson (Ceremony, Paint it Black, Puerto Rico Flowers) and Mike Sneeringer (Strand of Oaks, formerly from Purling Hiss, Puerto Rico Flowers) deliver the goods to the label in the form of their first full length; the eight song Pure Reality. Pure Reality began life while band leader Sharkey was working as a nightwatchman in Canberra, Australia. ‘A good portion of these songs were written in this walking coma at 4am under the cold ACT moon. Alone and to be quite honest, comfortably beleaguered.’ Jump ahead two years later and we find Sharkey returning to his hometown of Philadelphia to spiral into a highly disheartening culture shock; the fuel that makes the raging though austere songs that make up Pure Reality what they are. ‘Being thrust back into this fucking intellectual ghetto after a few years in solitude with some smart people has really done a number on my head. I hate my job, I detest my neighborhood and my neighbors. But this is the city that made me and I am forever grateful. Life is great then its shit, then it’s fine and back again until it’s done. I long to get back to a great part of my life.’ Musically, it retains the same grandiose delivery and burly, wide open guitar sound that was found on the earlier release by such U.K 80’s bands as The Comsat Angels, The Stone Roses, Blitz and Australia’s The Church. The combination of Dark Blue’s sweeping, majestic sound and the deep desperation found in Sharkey’s voice and lyrics is something that is matchless, harrowing and unrelenting. In other words, it’s Pure Reality Artist Dark Blue Genre Rock And Pop Label Jade Tree Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 1. Never Afraid / Never Alone 2. Here On My Street 3. Dear Iris 4. Sounds Like Hell On Earth 5. I Can’t Take Another Year 6. Hanging From The Chandelier 7. City Eyes 8. 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