Welp… I don’t think it would be at all possible to put this off any longer than I have. The yearly tradition of picking a favorite kid once again has me denying that I actually need to do it (they’re all special in their own way!) Someone much smarter than me once told me that limitations create value, and since time is also short, I’m going to adopt the style of the #50WordReview for each of the albums below. (For the record, they are in an order determined by the total number of track plays for all tracks on the…
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[L]ocal band Darlingside released their first full-length album, Pilot Machines, this past summer and have been on the road pretty much nonstop, touring up and down the east coast this year. It has been two years since their debut, self-titled EP put them on the Massachusetts indie-rock map and their latest offering shows that the boys have become a much more tight-knit group. It is hard to simply call Darlingside an indie-band, or folk rock band, as the music in Pilot Machines transcends normal music reviewer label language. Sure they have fantastic harmonies, beautiful strings, and showcase crazy mandolin playing…
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