ROUND THE EDGES

Dark was an obscure band that can be categorized as one of the progressive hard-rock hidden gems of the early 70's. Far from commercial melody and straightforward compositional structure, we have a loose jam-like music with distinguished distorted guitars, solid vocals, busy drums and pulsating bass guitar. What a great sound to transfer a couple of decades back! Apart from hard rock, you can hear some mellow passages like in "Maypole" which direct at folk-rock. This song actually has a melody! There are also progressive leanings a la "Blodwyn Pig" - listen to the chord sequence of "R.C.8" or good riffing in "Zero time". The record is quite homogenous so if you don't mind listening to a primarily hard-rock album, this one is worth exploring.