REVIEW: In Another Life, Sound Read Six
/June 10, 2026 | Rowan Blair Colver
Deardarkhead Offer Pure Musicality With Their Dazzling In Another Life
They’re working up a storm for their latest album, The Pendulum Swings. New Jersey-based Deardarkhead have been quiet over the past couple of decades, it’stheir first full-length release in 26 years, with In Another Life as the second single from the future album. It follows from their highly acclaimed Letting Go, which recently broke the ice after all this time. Their name comes from a traditional poem called Cean Dubh Dilis by Irishman Samuel Ferguson.They’ve also shared stages and studios with serious modern talent, feelingright at home alongside people like Deborah Harry, Supergrass, Everclear, andThe Psychedelic Furs. Their alt-rock sound is made more intriguing with the use of top-drawer melodic guitar and malleable atmosphere. As the clock strikes music and the chimes echo into memory, this is In Another Life.
A tone rich electric guitar begins to roar like an engine with an excess of valves. The fuel-hungry motor continues as the bass throws down the rhythmic section in rivers of reverberant atmosphere. The lead guitar then leaps into action, piercing the cloud layer with rockets of melody and emotive deliverance. A prog rock meltdown then carries the music down into a kind of rabbit hole, rhythm shifts in tune and the drums carry the weight on their shoulders. A spiralling mix of post-rock greets the gothic undercarriage that lifts off the ground in sweeping bars of adventure.