The American band The Darts is back with a fourth album, Boomerang. Review of their hypnotic rock garage.
BOOMERANG – THE DARTS
From the intro, The Darts are stating facts: Boomerang is an album to spin a lot. With a high energy level, Hang Around gets some pretty cool vintage sounds in, highlighted by a wonderful saturation. Are You Down chooses the path of soul and blues, integrating them without hurting the garage core of the band’s sound. There is no time to waste, and everything goes by quickly. Pour Another makes me shiver, Your Show is the quiet before the cathartic storm of Liar. It’s an avalanche of riffs that rushes in. They seem to belong to a universe where Halloween is on all year long. And I am here for it.
The same feeling is on the notes of Slither. But let’s note that the dose of scare The Darts proposes here is balanced and doesn’t represent the whole album, also keen to look for modern rock sounds like with Photograph or Hell Yeah, two tracks shaking up the depths of Hell. Because The Darts are badass like that. Both these anthems are followed by the mysterious Night, which could be a soundtrack for a gold casting in a film noir, and by Welcome To My Doldrums. Once again, the band shows a bit of a gothic aesthetic through a cool, hypnotic banger.
Dreaming Crazy comes and goes between dream and nightmare, with a peculiar, dark and vaporous atmosphere, yet really comfortable. The last punch of the record, You Disappoint Me, is far from disappointing anyone. And the softer The Middle Of Nowhere closes it all with the threat of a storm contained in its chords. Overall, the layers of the album are enough to make me want to come back to it. It’s a great re-listening potential. It makes of Boomerang a promising record for the future of The Darts.
