Some Days Are Darker forge ahead on reimagined post-goth elegy "Take Me Anywhere"
Originally released on Some Days Are Darker’s 2020 EP Love + Truth, “Take Me Anywhere” represented a foundational element in a developing post-gothic sound that joined textural arrangements and fatalistic prose with cinematic drama to craft a simmering neo-noir atmosphere lush with the melancholy of exquisitely doomed romance. Revisited with a full lineup and constructed under the druidic tutelage of legendary desert production wizard Dave Catching, every element of “Take Me Anywhere” has been dialed up for maximum impact on this brilliantly updated reimagining for their forthcoming LP, Black Box Warning.
Subtly accelerated with a percussive insistence that gently but forcefully presses into the red, Some Days Are Darker race towards inevitable oblivion with steel-eyed determination, one hand gripping the wheel and the other resting on the exposed thigh of a lover light years away in the passenger side bucket seat. As the world outside rushes by in a frenzied blur the interior remains still as a tomb, a glass-paneled sarcophagus built for two, threatening to shatter under the silent cacophony of unspoken words and thunderous emotions pounding from within with sledgehammer force.
Cavernous synths articulate a love language that embraces the unmitigated beauty of the moment in full recognition of tangible love’s brief mortality and the eternally enduring presence that lingers in the psyche like a spectral presence long after voluntarily turning one’s back on the fires of passion. Chiming guitars and perfectly rounded basslines coalesce into a siren’s song beckoning from the other side of the looking glass, an irresistible temptation to surrender to a chemical dalliance with the night that explodes in a sweeping finale, a bittersweet parting cast into the void on the tenderness of an impassioned lie.
Reflecting on the Numan-esque automotive isolation of the original video, “Take Me Anywhere” swaps the blindingly desolate expanse of the southwestern desert for the towering urban claustrophobia of a streetlight streaked Manhattan after midnight. Where the former video positions Some Days Are Darker frontman Lear Mason as a driver in total control of his journey, the latter places him alone in the back seat, a solitary passenger under glass ferried from station to station on the shadowy whims of unseen vices and pervasive restlessness veiled in the umbral shroud of a voluntary addiction to an insatiably self-destructive wanderlust.
Black Box Warning releases in 2026. Stream “Take Me Anywhere” on Spotify and follow Some Days Are Darker on Instagram.
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