Some Days Are Darker

Some Days Are Darker draws from the shadowy grandeur of goth, the hypnotic pulse of synth-driven alternative rock, and the intimacy of noir cinema, but defies easy categorization. Their songs move fluidly between towering walls of sound and moments of startling vulnerability, creating a world that feels at once cinematic and intensely personal. The result is music that doesn’t simply tell stories of love, loss, lust, and rebirth—it puts the listener inside them. That tension reaches its fullest expression on Black Box Warning, the band’s forthcoming album, recorded with Dave Catching at the legendary Rancho de la Luna in Joshua Tree, California. A twelve-song exploration of desire and its consequences, the record moves from some of the most intense and expansive music the band has created to quiet, exposed moments, including a solo acoustic performance and a closing piano ballad that leaves the record in emotional ruins. Rancho de la Luna—whose magical desert atmosphere has drawn artists including Iggy Pop, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Foo Fighters, PJ Harvey, and Daniel Lanois—provides an appropriately otherworldly backdrop for an album concerned with the things we chase, the things we lose, and the possibility that we may not always recognize the difference.