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Pictured: Daredevil is ready for some quality D&D. Hope you brought Cooler Ranch.
As you may or may not know, Kyle and I play in a band called Laarks. We recently went on a tour with the very incredible, “The Daredevil Christopher Wright”. I know it probably isn’t proper to put their name in quotation marks, but it seemed like there were a lot of “the”s in a row without it. Anyway, this comes from an EP that they put out in support of their most recent tour. Every one of them was hand painted and came with a mis-labeled mp3 tag. The former was probably intended, the second was probably not.

Anyway, this EP is solid stuff. The first track is from their forth coming EP, a cute little mid-tempo song about a brother moving to the east coast. It is titled (appropriately enough), “The East Coast”. This is not the song we are posting. Look for it soon. I’ve heard the whole album, and it kills me a little bit everyday that I can’t put it up on here.

The next track is a 7 minute epic that has some of the weirdest, greatest harmonies I’ve heard from a band in a long time. We aren’t posting that one either.

“Ian,” you are saying with the knowing smile of an older sibling, “What could you possibly be putting up? What could possibly be as great as those other songs?” Well, let me tell you, friend. “Old Time Love Songs” is a beautiful, short, little gem that manages to unlock that part of your brain that says, “Ah yes, there it is. THAT is what I’ve been looking for.” There is organ, there is guitar, there isn’t really any drums. It’s virtually perfect. The low-fi recording (the band did it themselves on a ratty old laptop) only adds to the charm. Do yourself a favor and check it out before they blow up big-time. We’re talking, “Grey’s Anatomy” big.

The Daredevil Christopher Wright - Old Time Love Songs