The Eternal Battle of Good & Evil.
The Internal Battle of Good & Evil.
The Human Condition.
Vanity.
The Natural World.
The Mechanical World.
The Imaginary World.
The Age of Aquarius.
Modesty.
light & sound.
Our bus.
History.
Metaphysics.
Fog Machines.
Walt Disney & Magical Hats.
Darla Farmer the Banker.
Rik Leventhal.
Sounds Like
Burnt Orange; explosions; the combustible tones of unmarked, non-consecutive, twenty dollar bills; eargasms.
Darla Farmer arose from the kind of disenchantment one can only experience when living in the musical mold known as Nashville. This septet is a rousing douse of musical Discordia, who makes it their goal to sonically please, displease, and please again.
Inspired by Tom Waits, The Blood Brothers, Man Man and other musical outfits alike, their arrangements include guitar, bass, drums and vocals, topped with a blasting horn section, piano and violin. Using this instrumentation to their advantage, Darla Farmer is simultaneously tumultuous and triumphant; chaotic and organized.
Darla Farmer’s first full-length album, “Rewiring the Electric Forest,” (2008 Paper Garden Records) creates a musical mattress made of rock and roll springs, pop comfort, and industrial firmness accentuated by a pillow of psychedelic cerebral focus. Their music leads the listener to a bed of insightful melody, but not without the necessary turmoil to keep you up at night.
Whether the topic is apocalyptic or the distortion of history, the desperation of being stuck within the cogs of mechanical routine, or the plaguing sensations of dreams, Darla Farmer manages to marry word to sound in a beautifully grotesque matrimony that is both curiously endearing and frighteningly absurd.
You stream and download our entire discography at:
http://darlafarmer.bandcamp.com/
“...wild, dark, violent, and simultaneously heart-wrenchingly beautiful.” - Decoy Music.
"The creativity quotient must be through the roof, and the band is forging ahead into uncharted musical waters." - Hot Wax
"This extremely eccentric group spew musical venom" -Eventful.com
"Their ramshackle mix of blasting trombones, trumpets, violins and keys results in skin-piercing music that lands somewhere between a frightening nightmare and a comforting dream." - Nashville Scene
"While the gypsy/punk/ska interface prides itself on toeing the line of violent anarchy, this lot seems more the type to fall to mumbling, twitching sleep in a heap at the end of the night, all wine mouthed, still clutching their instruments and plucking a lullaby. Adorable." -SoundProof Magazine
Hellloooooo Farmers...just wanted to let you know that I saw your perty music listed in an iTunes video. If you examine the 1 minute and 41 second mark on the "Getting Started with iTunes 9" overview, sure enough, Darla Farmer is there. BAM! I think y'all should parlay that into a dancing shadow person commercial ;)
