DARKSIDE release their new album Nothing on February 28th via Matador Records. The group includes Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington, and now includes new drummer Tlacael Esparza. Ahead of the album’s release, Darkside have shared new single “Hell suite (pt. II).” This March, Darkside will tour North America, their first in 11 years, Special guests will include Will Epstein, Kalia Vandever, Eucademix, Spencer Zahn, Deradoorian, and Patrick Shiroishi.

On their first two reinventions, Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington entered the studio with a clutch of scattered ideas and loose melodic fragments to mold into what became the revered ‘Psychic’ (2013) and ‘Spiral’ (2021). But Nothing reflected a search for form borne out of spontaneous elliptical jams, acoustic riffing, and digital levitations. And in a fundamental shift from their first dozen years as a band, Jaar and Harrington recruited their longtime friend and collaborator, the drummer and instrument designer Tlacael Esparza, to become a full-time member.

Jaar and Harrington originally met at school in Providence during the early years of the last decade. While on tour in support of Jaar’s debut album, an off-day off-hand recording session in a Berlin hotel room caused their speakers to blow. The room filled with smoke and the song divined that day became their first single ‘A1’.

Shortly after shattering the 7-foot double-sided mirror that accompanied them on their 2014 tour, DARKSIDE announced what would become a six-year hiatus. The story resumes in Los Angeles. In the fall of 2022, DARKSIDE booked a series of shows to reintroduce themselves as a live entity for the first time in eight years.

To prep for their return, DARKSIDE rented a storefront in northeast Los Angeles. Esparza joined as a full-time member, fundamentally changing the sound and spirit of the band. Throughout the summer of ’22, the new trio built itself from scratch. At The Spiral House, they deciphered their new identity and vocabulary.

“Nothing” became a recurring motif on DARKSIDE’s subsequent European tour in the spring and summer of 2023. The sense of absence in the ‘Nothing Jam’ could paradoxically become a generative space for creation. Recording sessions for the album began on a tour off-day, where the trio decamped to a studio in the south of France. Quickly, they locked into a whimsical, loose groove. The sessions in France were followed by another week in Los Angeles and another round in Paris.

Darside
Nothing
tracklist
Matador Records

1. Slau
2. S.N.C
3. Are You Tired
4. Graucha Max
5. American References
6. Heavy is Good For This
7. Hell Suite (Part I)
8. Hell Suite (Part II)
9. Sin El Sol No Hay Nada

Darkside 2025 Tour Dates

Mar. 13 – Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed *
Mar. 14 – Detroit, MI @ Masonic Cathedral Theatre *
Mar. 15 – Toronto, ON @ HISTORY *
Mar. 16 – Montreal, QC @ MTELUS *
Mar. 18 – Boston, MA @ Royale $
Mar. 19 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore $
Mar. 21 – New York, NY @ Brooklyn Steel % SOLD OUT
Mar. 22 – New York, NY @ Brooklyn Steel $
Mar. 23 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club %
Mar. 25 – Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl &
Mar. 26 – Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre &
Mar. 27 – Knoxville, TN @ Big Ears Festival
Apr. 4 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater #
Apr. 5 – Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre #
Apr. 6 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox #
Apr. 8 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield ^
Apr. 9 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst ^
Apr. 11-13 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
Apr. 15 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Union Event Center !
Apr. 16 – Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom !
Apr. 18-20 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival

* Will Epstein
$ Kalia Vandever
% Eucademix
& Spencer Zahn
# Pachyman
^ Angel Deradoorian
! Patrick Shiroishi

Pre-order Nothing by Darkside HERE