Albums Of The Week: Marcus King Band

Marcus King – Darling Blue

With Darling Blue, the American bluesman Marcus King organizes a meeting of talented buddies in a root atmosphere. So the parenthesis is (temporarily?) closed for Marcus King. A return to the band is about moving on to something more than the considerations flirting with the depression of Mood Swings, the previous album? Not the [...] Cet article Marcus King – Darling Blue est apparu en premier sur Rolling Stone.

Albums Of The Week: Marcus King Band

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Darling Blue finds Grammy-nominated Marcus King reuniting with his longtime live band for their first recorded album together since 2018’s Carolina Confessions. Inspired heavily by his home state of South Carolina, the new album incorporates elements of country, folk, psychedelic rock and Motown-era R&B and continues the conversation on King’s experience […] The post Albums Of The Week: Marcus King Band | Darling Blue …

ALBUM REVIEW: On ‘Darling Blue,’ Marcus King Finds the Light

Night and day. If you were to line up Marcus King’s 2024 solo release, Mood Swings, against his latest effort, Darling Blue, that’s what you’d experience, the radical difference between an artist seized by shadows and one caught in the light. If the former, a viscous voyage through depression and addiction, saw King crying out in desperation, it’s almost as if the latter finds his calls answered. Having reunited in the studio with his longtime l…

Marcus King Returns To Country Tinged Roots With Collective Group Sound On 'Darling Blue' (ALBUM REVIEW) - Glide Magazine

Last year, Marcus King deviated from his norm with the Rick Rubin-produced Mood Swings. He scaled back his vaunted guitar and valiantly focused on his vocals, experimenting with soul. Now he follows that up by returning to his roots, reuniting with his longtime live band for their first album since 2018’s Carolina Confessions. The new release, Darling Blue, is a safe, guest-filled, country-tinged offering that still manages to deliver a few chan…