{"product_id":"darsombra-dumesday-book-2xcassette","title":"Darsombra – Dumesday Book 2xCassette","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=564638873\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDarsombra – Dumesday Book 2xCassette\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDarsombra’s “Dumesday Book” is a whopping seventy-five minutes of sonic revelry, to \u003cbr\u003edelight and confound both seasoned Darsombra listeners and unwitting new ears alike. \u003cbr\u003eOriginally conceived as a surreal take on a pop album to contrast with their ominously \u003cbr\u003eprescient monolithic 2019 release, “Transmission”, 2023’s “Dumesday Book” is a ten\u003cbr\u003esong survey of sentiment and human experience in the pandemic, from initial lockdown \u003cbr\u003eto vaccinated re-emergence and beyond—which, in the Darsombra microcosm, means \u003cbr\u003efrom cancelled tours to returning to the road. Fittingly, the band wrote the framework for the album during the quarantine of spring 2020, and then tirelessly refined it over the \u003cbr\u003enext three years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAt times bizarre, intense, mollifying, sardonic, irreverent, overwhelming, and hopeful, \u003cbr\u003e“Dumesday Book” takes its name from the 11th century census book that served as the \u003cbr\u003eoldest public record in the English language, Domesday Book—so named because its \u003cbr\u003edecisions were unalterable, its sentence was law, and its survey of human activity so \u003cbr\u003ecomplete. The album’s sound follows the theme of survey as well, with glam-prog \u003cbr\u003efrivolity giving way to heavy psych doomscapes laden with music concrète field \u003cbr\u003erecordings. A bong rip takes you from a disconcerting chord progression to a goblin \u003cbr\u003edoggerel dirge, all to resolve into a space-shimmery synthcapade laced with heart\u003cbr\u003efuelled guitar riffs worthy of any Krautrockian nod for a non-Teutonic band. Of course, \u003cbr\u003ethere are serious moments of ROCK woven throughout this hour-and-change-long \u003cbr\u003emusical journey, but to typify “Dumesday Book” as simply drone, or metal, or psych—or \u003cbr\u003eeven prog—is missing the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Crucial Blast Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49552903569700,"sku":"","price":15.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2606\/0952\/files\/darsomdumes.jpg?v=1720113797","url":"https:\/\/www.stickfiguremailorder.com\/products\/darsombra-dumesday-book-2xcassette","provider":"Stickfigure Mailorder","version":"1.0","type":"link"}