Some Days Are Darker
“With vocals that undulate and twist like tendrils of smoke from the cigarette of a femme fatale, Some Days Are Darker strike the perfect balance between dramatic theatricality and plain spoken honesty to achieve an air of irrefutable authenticity.”
— Clayton Pacelli
LONG PRESS BIO:
TV-MA, the latest release from New York City’s pop-flecked, alt-rock faction, Some Days Are Darker, stands as an enthralling, eminently engaging declaration of intent.
A conceptual art piece in five sonic chapters, the record melds shimmering guitar, ethereal synths, and impeccable rhythm into work that is at once timeless and very much of the moment. Strip away the Noir atmospherics and one finds deeply catching melodies lifting frontman/songwriter Lear Mason’s yearning, melancholic baritone to the forefront of a concept album that unfolds like an anthology, and at its core is a deeply human meditation on love, loss, and rebirth.
Warm and shimmering on the surface, cold and dark at its depths, TV-MA is a narrative journey through passion, obsession, and existential rumination. “Can anyone ever save us from ourselves?” asks Mason "Sometimes you feel like no one in the world could ever understand you. Our own personal experiences are so unique. We are cursed with only ever getting to see things through our own eyes. But once in a while, music speaks to you in a way that nothing else can. It says, ‘I feel what you feel. You’re not alone.’ That moment and the hope that I can provide that for someone is why I will never stop creating.”
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