The Dark - Dressing The Corpse LP Secondhand stripped-down arrangements and a "one-take-and-out"

stripped-down arrangements and a "one-take-and-out" mentality

to his collaborative efforts in bands such as Plagal Grind and Two Foot Flame

recorded in a studio and influenced heavily by Merrill Garbus’ moving to Oakland

or even The Velvet Underground

while also fronting his own bands Directing Hand

The Dark - Dressing The Corpse LP Secondhand stripped-down arrangements and a "one-take-and-out"Scat digging up teenage punk energy from the archives with a collection of The Darks unreleased and live radio recordings from the early 1980s! I guess Id first heard The Dark on the Cleveland Confidential comp, but only really registered them as a group while reading Eric Davidsons fantastic interview with guitarist Robert Griffin on the Please Kill Me blog a couple of years ago charting the development of the group into Spike In Vain some years