Sinking Suns – Dark Days [black/silver/yellow vinyl] - New LP

Party’s over. Madison, Wisconsin’s SINKING SUNS have returned with Dark Days, their third LP...songwriting that cuts across genres – post-punk, post-hardcore, gritty rock, the clanging banging wallop of the Birthday Party and the tongue in cheek swagger of Lubricated Goat.  There’s a controlled swing to these nine songs. There’s breathing space in the maelstrom. The drums aren’t driving the songs off cliffs but cattle-prodding them forward. The bass isn’t saturating every song with discolored thud but pushes a groove. Dark Days is a long march to bloody victory chaperoned by Dennis Ponozzo’s irreverent vocal snarl over haunting chord progressions. Sinking Suns nailed it with this one, have received the news of social collapse and are steeling themselves to tell the rest of us about the dark days ahead.