DARLING. DUBLIN
Perfect for this time of year, Darling started
with two men writing down their resolutions 12
months ago. Gary Harding and James McGuire’s
previous band had just fallen apart, and the pair
were looking for a new purpose. That led them
to Gary’s parents' house, where they holed up to
study the songwriting greats and hatch a new,
sophisticated sound. As the tunes started to
stream out, the Darling name arrived; soon it was
time to get serious. “We confined ourselves to a
studio environment for months and months with
guitars and pianos, a seven-year-old Mac and some
glitchy software trying to write stuff that moved
us and was worthy of real pop music,” Harding
would later explain. “We listened to the giants and
studied them and wrote and wrote. We wanted to
write music that would sound just as solid in 20
years.” ‘Echoes’ is an early effort, a pristine slice of
the kind of adult pop that poured out of Britain in
the ‘80s. No wonder Stephen Lipson, a producer
who's previously worked his magic on Grace Jones,
Pet Shop Boys and Ultravox, sat up and took notice
upon hearing one of their demos. The Darling
EP, released last October, is the immaculate fruit
borne from their work in his West London studio.
That they can transition from that environment to
a live setting so seamlessly also bodes well.
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