{"id":36565,"date":"2026-03-06T07:52:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/addtowantlist.com\/?p=36565"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:18:32","slug":"album-review-the-darts-us-halloween-love-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addtowantlist.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/album-review-the-darts-us-halloween-love-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"New album: The Darts (US) || Halloween Love Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seattle’s The Darts<\/a> have spent the last decade turning sticky club floors across Europe and the US into late-night garage-punk revivals, and Halloween Love Songs<\/em><\/a> feels like the band bottling that neon-lit electricity. What started as a little joke that the holiday deserved so much more than just Monster Mash<\/em>, led to this concept album with thirteen spooky tunes.<\/p>\n

Nicole Laurenne, The Darts’ bewitching lead singer and songwriter (also known for her Black Viiolet<\/a> project), explains: ‘Side A is chock full of tasty, candy-colored Halloween kitsch, to be played while trick-or-treating as the sun sets, blasted over a school’s public address system, and headlining every seasonal sing-along. But Side B is the soundtrack for after dark, when the bonfire is raging. It’s for sweaty middle-of-the-night dancing, making out on a bed of empty candy wrappers, and spinning through an all-nighter apocalypse.’<\/p>\n

Set to fuzzy guitars and gritty organs (actually, the music is the real hero here), B-movie horror imagery (vampires, ghosts, zombies, devils, the apocalypse) becomes a playful language where desire, darkness, and the thrill of the night blur together into supernatural intimacy (“Every night is Halloween \/\/ Some nights you kiss \/\/ Some nights you bite”). October 31st is still a while away, but anticipation has rarely been this loud, or this much fun.<\/p>\n