Leírás
Punk Rock, Hip Hop, Indie Rock, Post-Punk, Shoegaze,
Limited edition FEKETE színű bakelit lemez LP kiadvány, 2022-es album.
Pressed on Black vinyl and limited to 300 copies worldwide. Includes lyric insert.
„Devin McKnight makes music to be understood. With Maneka, his wildly adventurous songwriting project, the Brooklyn-based indie rock artist has consistently and thoughtfully explored the fringes of identity. As a Black man, he writes songs that resiliently navigate the anxiety of being a minority in largely white spaces, offering solidarity to outsiders everywhere and firm defiance against a regressive status quo. On Dark Matters, the masterful second Maneka album out March 11, 2022 via Skeletal Lightning, McKnight is at his most clear-eyed and searching. Across 10 tracks, McKnight asks uncomfortable questions about himself and America’s dark past all while scraping the edges of what guitar music can be. Kinetic, unpredictable, and totally resonant, this LP is a triumphant window into McKnight’s vision.
„Dark Matters” is the result of McKnight’s hard-earned confidence as a frontman and lyricist. “The first record maybe it was a little bit of that like I was afraid to really show all my cards and the second one I got to dig a little deeper, but this one feels like it’s what I’ve truly been going for,” says McKnight. Where Devin honed in on overt things that McKnight was experiencing, he approached this record with a bird’s eye view drawing from subjects as big picture as American history and even the cosmos. “There’s a lot about being a racial minority in this country, in general, that kind of ends up in the cracks,” says McKnight. “There are stories that get literally thrown out or explained away or hurt too much to talk about: the Tulsa massacre, sundown towns, etc.” Though these historical realities are tossed aside for sanitized narratives, there’s power and necessity in their retelling.
On Dark Matters, the record sounds fantastic. Engineered and mixed by longtime friend and collaborator, Mike Thomas as well as mastered by Beauty Pill’s Chad Clark, the record boasts his longtime drummer Jordan Blakely, as well as a wealth of collaborators like V.V. Lightbody and Chicago polymath NNAMDÏ, who drums on two standout jazz freakouts “Jazz with Nnamdi.” Closer “Bluest Star,” sums up a record with a bitter and nostalgic look at a lost friend. “Blue Stars are stars that get so big and so hot they burn out really fast and they also suck the energy out of all the other stars around them,” says McKnight. Over frenetic guitars, he sings a kiss-off: I was the one who walked away / And made it out. / I grew a rocket and some wings / And I drew a crowd without you.”
This statement of defiance and strength against adversity is the main thread of Dark Matters. “Learning about this history made me think a little bit more about how much I didn’t know about myself and where I come from,” says McKnight. “Trying to place myself in this history and my own place in the universe was what I was trying to accomplish with this record. These lyrics are way more personal even if they’re talking about these things from the past.” – Josh Terry
Felvételek:
LP :
1.Dark Matter (intro) 00:56
2.Zipline 03:35
3.Winner’s Circle 04:20
4.Jazz with Nnamdi (The Brunch Special) 01:02
5.The Glow Up 03:50
6.Runaway 03:25
7.On Her Own 03:13
8.Jazz with Nnamdi (The Cocktail Hour) 02:28
9.Maintain 03:32
10.Bluest Star 03:40.
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