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Feb 16, 2017Forever rushing forwards, Saturday Night isn’t content to sit still. It’s illuminating and infuriating, but never easy to ignore.
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UncutFeb 15, 2017It's a testament of the savvy of darcy and his producers Ross Gillard and Amy Fort that the new album's experimental passages are very much cut from the same cloth as more obvious crowd-pleasers like "You Felt Comfort," which shares the drive and jangle of "Tall Glass Of Water," and "Saint Germain," a dreamy haze of a song that demonstrates Darcy's gift for melody, absurd turns of phase and more pointed expressions of inner turmoil. [Mar 2017, p.38]
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Feb 23, 2017From the outset, Saturday Night both plays to expectations and subverts them.
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Feb 15, 2017[Darcy's] never sounded more relaxed, more relieved to be relaxed--and the soft edges, the familiar refrains, the gentle tones, they’re all windows to that light in [him].
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Feb 15, 2017Saturday Night is a confident debut from a creator who's best when he seems uncomfortable. So long as he keeps evading his comfort zone, Darcy's songwriting should remain potent for years to come.
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Mar 2, 2017Saturday Night's biggest accomplishment, then, is rounding out Darcy as a songwriter. Not only is this a pleasant little rock album, but it makes Ought's output more understandable as well.
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Mar 20, 2017Saturday Night is a record that is almost misanthropic in its progression, and an intriguing insight into Tim Darcy the artist.
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Feb 15, 2017The album gathers songs of a more personal nature than were fitting for his band's fierier post-punk disposition, with a few actually predating Ought. Not that Saturday Night is a sullen acoustic-guitar record; rather, Darcy is more reflective here, sometimes channeling early solo Lou Reed and sometimes wandering into more experimental meditations.