Stream: ASHRR, ‘Dark Eyes’

Kevin Bronson on December 7th, 2020

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Darkwave trio ASHRR came out of the shadows in 2018, the unlikely alliance of a golden-throated singer who’d performed with big bands and done standards (Steven Davis) and two multi-instrumentalists/producers, Ethan Allen and Josh Charles, who know their way around rock history.

Their 2019 debut album “Oscillator” mined the synth-pop and rock of the ’80s, chiseling songs out of disquietude for modern life and giving fans of New Order, Depeche Mode and Soft Cell something a bit familiar.

As they forge ahead working on their second album, the trio last week released their second single of 2020, “Dark Eyes.” It’s the follow-up to their decidedly post-punk offering “Waves,” released this summer, and an atmospherics-heavy swim through murky waters of self-loathing. Oh, that we should all come up for air.

“In relationships we come to one another, just as we are, with a past and all our imperfections,” Davis says of the song. “And though we may have felt the glare of dark eyes upon us, in regret or guilt; those who love us embrace the fullness of who we are, our past, and all that shaped us, bringing us to this moment, in our beautiful, flawed humanity.”

||| Stream: “Dark Eyes”