DARKSIDE, Liberty Bell | Single Notez 🎶

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The Musical Hype provides some quick thoughts on the song “Liberty Bell,” by alternative duo, DARKSIDE (Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington).

🎵 Single/Song/Track: “Liberty Bell”

📻 Genre: Alternative

🎙¹ Lead Artist/Band: DARKSIDE

🎙² Featured Guests: N/A

🎼 ✍ Songwriters: Dave Harrington, Nicolas Jaar

🎛️ Producers: DARKSIDE

💿 Album: Spiral (2021)

The Single Notez 🎶:

➕ Spacey, enigmatic introduction; Makes the listener lean on every note

➕ I enjoy how this track percolates; within the first minute, it becomes more intense and stabilizes

➕ The pacing of “Liberty Bell” is awesome from start to finish; never feels like this four-minute-plus track is needlessly drawn out

➕ Colorful palette of sounds, including keyboards, guitar, drums; quite intriguing

➕ Enjoyable vocal performance; Poised yet feels totally fitting for this alternative joint

➕ Even with the colorful palette, the minimalism of “Liberty Bell” is appreciated 

➖ No glaring weaknesses.

🖊 Memorable lyric:  

“Like the liberty bell
Shining in the night
An arrow that I drew
And a jockey dressed in black
Blood on the racehorse
Tell when to place the show
Announcing my mistake.” 

🔏 In Closing: DARKSIDE – Dave Harrington and Nicolas Jaar – returns with a colorful, surefire alternative gem in “Liberty Bell.”

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🎙 DARKSIDE • 🎵 “Liberty Bell” • 🏷 Matador • 🗓 12.21.20

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