Dark Blue have announce the release of their forthcoming album Pure Reality on October 7 via Jade Tree. The band is also happy to reveal the 2nd single off the album, “Here on My Street,” which they premiered today. Dark Blue is a Philadelphia super trio consisting of John Sharkey III (Clockcleaner, Puerto Rico Flowers) Andrew Mackie Nelson (Ceremony, Paint it Black,Puerto Rico Flowers) and Mike Sneeringer (Strand of Oaks, formerly from Purling Hiss,Puerto Rico Flowers). Pure Reality was recorded and produced by Jeff Zeigler (Kurt Vile, War on Drugs, Sunny Day in Glasgow, Nothing).

Pure Reality began life while band leader Sharkey was working as a nightwatchman in Canberra, Australia. ‘I refused to allow myself to get on the graveyard sleep schedule, so I would walk around in a shot-nerves psychosis every night patrolling a desolate university campus in north Canberra. A good portion of these songs were written in this walking coma at 4 am under the cold ACT moon. Alone and to be quite honest, comfortably beleaguered.’

Jump ahead two years later and we find Sharkey returning to his hometown of Philadelphia to spiral into a highly disheartening culture shock; the fuel that makes the raging though austere songs that make up ‘Pure Reality’ what they are. ‘Being thrust back into this fucking intellectual ghetto after a few years in solitude with some smart people has really done a number on my head. I hate my job, I detest my neighborhood and my neighbors. But this is the city that made me and I am forever grateful. Life is great then its shit, then it’s fine and back again until it’s done. I long to get back to a great part of my life.’ Musically, it retains the same grandiose delivery and burly, wide open guitar sound that was found on the earlier release by such U.K 80’s bands as The Comsat Angels, The Stone Roses, Blitz and Australia’s The Church.

Pure Reality Track Listing:

1. Never Afraid / Never Alone
2. Here On My Street
3. Dear Iris
4. Sounds Like Hell On Earth
5. I Can’t Take Another Year
6. Hanging From The Chandelier
7. City Eyes
8. Always Ready To Leave

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