Pre-Order starts July 6th, MP3 available immediately
10 tracks on cream-colored vinyl

Darling’s first full-length record is about licking your paws and moving on. From start to finish, it’s about knowing where you are in life and what’s important. Lights that last forever are the people and ideas that matter most and will guide you as you age. As Darling matures, the pop grows (of Montreal, the Cars) as much as their guitar attack warbles and clangs (Television, Neil Young). The album starts at an uncomfortable moment in life and progresses to a new beginning and a renewed appreciation for life around you. You can hear old memories fade away and new ones begin, starting with a heart attack and ending with a gathering of hope. This record combines the wistful melancholy and shimmering joy of the last two EPs into a complete story.

An unlikely skin for such severe emotional heartbreak. 7 Tracks of chrome disillusion and polished denial. The lo-fi Darling is left in the dust for Built To Spill and Television style 3-minute guitar workouts. Bassist Nick Voss penned 2 of the 7 tracks, adding a Jim O’Rourke tongue-in-cheek disenchantment to Jeff Schneider’s towering Neil Young heartache. This is a breakup record, written and recorded on the fly, and infected with an Animal Collective urgency.

This album is a soulful walk through your mind and eventually to the discovery that although your time on earth is limited, your creation will live on forever. From the title track “Ground is Sound” ambient beginnings followed by a raucous chorus line are meant to symbolize the path your mind takes you from the cradle. Early Hood whispers through layers of Death Cab computers and the sweet and hopeful, with ambient bliss followed by a raucous chorus. With Television and New Wave guitars, Malkmus or Martsch vocals and the ever-present melancholy, this is where Darling hits its stride, spilling secrets over acoutic guitars, fending off mini-Korgs at every corner.