{"product_id":"tara-clerkin-somewhere-good-1","title":"Tara Clerkin- Somewhere Good (PREORDER) (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith two extraordinary mini-albums making a splash on London's World of Echo label in wake of their self-titled 2020 debut, Somewhere Good is, in many ways, the Tara Clerkin Trio's most realised work. In running their usual gauntlet of idiosyncratic approaches, Clerkin \u0026amp; co. Color in and outside of compositional lines over the course of 40+ celebratory minutes - never wallowing, despite inherently somber subject matters of self-defeat, disease, displacement, restlessness, gentrification - allowing their arrangements and improvisations ample space and time to situate, stretch out, breathe, cross-pollinate, and ultimately take deeper hold on the listener's imagination - all while somehow sounding more like themselves than ever before.Of course, there are traceable influences herein.. Being the big dumb American from the small boring town that I am, cornfed on '90s alternative radio with the enchantingly exotic sounds of Maxinquaye and Mezzanine emanating from my chunky tube television, I can't help but to make a blatantly obvious reference to a \"Bristol sound\", ie the whole trip-hop trip, the pastoral crooning over the suggestive urban grime of cracked electro\/piano treatments, the digitally-yet-primitively reconstructed James Bond soundtrack string-beats, etc.. But the Tara Clerkin Trio is so infinitely much more than that. There are elements of avant-pop, modern classical, kraut-folk, audio verité, dare I say indie rock (and not of the beer guzzling, masturbatory fuzz-flex variety but perhaps more like a Trish Keenan-fronted Faust, Adrian Sherwood at the mixing desk of If You're Feeling Sinister, or - in expanding on our alternate reality - a world in which High Llamas cut a full-length for Warp Records with Andrew Weatherall on coffee duty).- Ryan Davis (Chicago, February 2026)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLake Walk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLazy Daisy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUps ; Downs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSilently\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere Was a Nice Sunset\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSomewhere Good\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSlow Island\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMovin' on\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eUPC \u0026gt; 5055869552431\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormat \u0026gt; New Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLabel \u0026gt; World Of Echo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShop online at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eDarkside Records\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47786657841373,"sku":"5055869552431","price":262.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4506910-3561029.jpg?v=1776177334","url":"https:\/\/darksiderecords.myshopify.com\/products\/tara-clerkin-somewhere-good-1","provider":"Darkside Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}