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Dark Romantics, The
The Artificial EP
By naming themselves after a literary subgenre best popularized by the author Edgar Allan Poe, The Dark Romantics give themselves a connotation to sound dark, dreary, and driven by primal emotion. Advertently or not, the band manages to conjure exactly this, but somehow forgets to express the most crucial asset of Goth romanticism: passion. Consisting of Eric Collins from the debunked Denison Marrs, Dean Paul, and their respective wives (who are also sisters), the band fails to spike any energy into the six tracks on this EP and comes off as a bad mockery of Cool Hand Luke forgetting to take their anti-depressant medication. Their debut album Some Midnight Kissin spit out upbeat moody rock vibrant enough to be Celebrity’s twin brother or Starflyer 59’s spunky alter-ego. Let’s just hope this exclusively online album is merely a selection of cut tracks and an acceptable album is in the works.
[Lujo] Dan Frazier
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