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Gravity's Dirty Work album sampler

We made a short sampler track from four tracks on the new album, and a video too.




You can stream the full album (and of course buy it) here:

Os, October 2013

Selsey Reflections EP (free download) released

A free introduction to the band, Selsey Reflections features the single Ahead Finitely taken from the new album Gravity's Dirty Work, together with exclusive and archive tracks: the odd time signature sequences of Selsey Reflections; the intense live performance of Light Sleeper; and the first track recorded by the project that became Darkroom, the 18-minute dub collage Alien Grace, restored and remastered for 2013.

'Gravity's Dirty Work' can be pre-ordered on Bandcamp.




Os, September 2013

Gravity's Dirty Work release dates

The new Darkroom album Gravity’s Dirty Work will be released on 1st October 2013.

Physical: CD and limited edition heavyweight double vinyl LP with Carl Glover-designed gatefold sleeve

Download: all the usual sources (iTunes etc.) or darkroomtheband.bandcamp.com, which will provide the best possible quality downloads (generated from the 24 bit masters).

Pre-orders from 5th September via www.burningshed.com/store/darkroom or darkroomtheband.bandcamp.com.

Darkroom - Gravity's Dirty Work

Os, August 2013

New album artwork

Carl at Aleph Studio has excelled himself again with the artwork for the new Darkroom album. More release details soon!
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Os, August 2013

New album progress

The new Darkroom album is progressing well. The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed that my last.fm profile shows me listening to some cryptically named Darkroom tracks in various orders over the last few days - that’s me trying to get the play order right. I think I’ve nailed it.

It should be said that Mike hasn’t heard much of this yet, so it could be all back to the drawing board soon.

But I like it.

Os, January 2010

SOTNMS available on eMusic.com

Some Of These Numbers Mean Something is finally available via subscription-based online retailer eMusic. Go get it here.

Os, April 2009

SOTNMS now released

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Some of These Numbers Mean Something is now released.

You can order the CD from Burning Shed, or buy the download from most online retailers e.g. iTunes.

os, Oct 2008

New album now available for pre-order

Some Of These Numbers Mean Something is now available for pre-order from the Burning Shed online shop. Buy now while stocks last!

os, Sept 2008

Some Of These Numbers Mean Something

So here it is - the new album. Entitled "Some Of These Numbers Mean Something", it's 9 tracks of guitary synthy goodness.
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Release date is 3rd October 2008, and with any luck you'll be able to pre-order it before then.

From the press release:

Darkroom's new album - Some Of These Numbers Mean Something - is their 8th to date, and marks the 10th anniversary of their first (Daylight) released by 3rd Stone in 1998.

The original brief for the new album was: guitar under a microscope.
In places it's the heaviest Darkroom album yet, but also the most accessible, combining 70s space rock, 80s Sheffield electronica, 60s guitar instrumentals and 90s post rock.

Mixing classic synthesizer & guitar tones with contemporary post-production,
this album combines improvisation with carefully crafted and layered arrangement, and rewards repeated listening.

From Santana & Tangerine Dream to Cocteau Twins & Tortoise: file under ambient stadium rock.

(full text here)

os, Sept 2008

New album - more progress

The lack of updates here belies the behind-the-scenes goings-on here in Darkroom-land. It's been mastered by a big name mastering guy (more on that experience from Mike at some point), we've got a great sleeve from our good friend Carl at Aleph Studio, and it's been sent off for manufacturing.

Expect to hear release details soon. It'll be available from Burning Shed initially, and in digital form somewhat later. I heartily encourage all to buy a physical copy from Burning Shed, so you can appreciate the majesty of the fold-out CD booklet.

os, August 2008

New album progress

Some news on the new Darkroom album - it's nearly done! The track listing is finalised (there are 9 tracks - two sides of 4 tracks each, with an 'intermission'), and the tracks are all named. On Thursday it's being professionally mastered - a first for a Darkroom album - and then we need to see about some cover art and getting the thing made. From which you'll gather that we're not throwing in the towel on physical delivery of music just yet. (I still buy CDs myself, so I feel other people must do too.) This time however we'll be doing our best to get a vaguely simultaneous release on iTunes etc.

What's the music like, I hear you ask. Well, it's something of a departure if you know us from recent stuff, like the podcast, or the Fallout series, but recognisably the work of the same people. Only one track on the album would class as 'ambient', which is the first word I've chosen to describe what we do for years. In a way it's back to the song-type music we explored on Seethrough, though obviously without a vocalist this time. The inclusion of a live drummer on several tracks lends it some post-rock accessibility, but I don't think anyone's going to confuse us with Tortoise. The brief for the album was "guitar under the microscope". It's not the album I thought we were going to make, but it took on a life and direction of its own, and I'm very pleased with where it ended up.

We took some new photos too, with a view to using them on the sleeve, or in related publicity material. I quite like this one - we look adequately enigmatic, without looking suicidal or homicidal.

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os, July 2008

Free download-only release

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Head over to burningshed.com for a free (as in beer) download-only release from your favourite ambient band (that's us, by the way) - The DAC Mixes (slight return) or The DAC Mixes, continued depending on whether you believe the website or the ID3 tags.

Many view Nemeton's "Remix 2", the last track on The DAC Mixes, as amongst the highlights of the album. "Remix 2" was picked as being the best of the four remixes submitted by Nemeton, but it was a close call as the band considered all of them excellent. Rather than have these tracks languishing, unheard, on the Darkroom hard drive, the band decided to put these out as a free download and a subtle advertisement for the original 'The DAC Mixes' album itself (which featured mixes and contributions from Bass Communion, Tim Bowness, Theo Travis, Peter Chilvers and Centrozoon, amongst others).

os, Feb 2008

Os remixes Look See Proof

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In a bizarre quirk of fate, Os has ended up doing a remix for up-and-coming indie band Look See Proof, remixing their previous single "Casualty" for the b-side (if CD singles can truly be said to have b-sides) of their new single "Do You Think It's Right?", released on Weekender Records on 24th March 2008.

Check out the official page here or search on your favourite purveyor of discs/downloads.

os, Feb 2008