Album: Art in the Dark
Year: 1985
Two years into Certain Songs, and here’s the type of obscure gem with a backstory that absolutely I live to write about.
One of the things that instantly happened after Chronic Town & Murmur was that college kids all over the country decided that they wanted to do that, and almost instantly jangly guitar bands with names like “Boxcars” and “Art in the Dark” sprung up sporting songs featuring arpeggiated guitars over rumbling beats.
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