Summer Darling: Monday Night Residency @ Spaceland

Monday Night Residency @ Spaceland – Summer Darling, with Kissing Cousins, Vanaprasta, and TS and The Past Haunts.

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Summer Darling’s songs often start out as simple, jangling folk pop, but by the end they’re usually transformed into powerful, heavy-dreamin’ rock opuses. The new track “This Would Be the Time” (from the local quartet’s upcoming self-titled album on Origami Music) opens with Ben Heywood’s and Dan Rossiter’s majestic interlocking guitars, as the former intones in a hazy, haunted voice. Even as the guitars ratchet up the chaos, Heywood remains coolly somber underneath it all. Like his bassist-wife Heather Bray Heywood, the singer-guitarist is the child of ministers, and many of his lyrics reflect the contradictions of “his dissolving faith and darkening worldview.” Nonetheless, that worldview is often illuminated with witty insights and intriguing lines like “We eat our young to keep you guessing” (from the euphoric early tune “Ride This Wave of Good Feelings”) and “I’ve got cancers to reward for sticking with me” (from “The Zealot”). At their best, Summer Darling evoke the emotional storminess of Neil Young’s old work with Crazy Horse. – LA Weekly