Darvid Thor - In The Space You Carry LP

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Gentle and tender indie rock artist DARVID THOR today unveils his debut album In The Space You Carry. Featuring singles ‘To Remember Yourself’, ‘Changing Shape’, ‘Be There’, ‘Garden’, and focus track ‘Back To’, In The Space You Carry is a catharsis from youth, a shedding of skin. Leaning into the cinematic and orchestral spaces within the indie and alternative music idiom, Darvid’s “absorbing, photosynthetic, warped, beautiful” (Triple J) music reminds us to slow down, take a breath, and take stock of what’s around us.

Carving out a new mood between the frayed crosshairs of orchestral indie, Darvid Thor’s debut album In The Space You Carry is a record conceived of and produced in a time of personal and temporal unbecoming. ITSYC holds it all. The stillness, the explosiveness, the catharsis, the farewell; ITSYC is the sound of the intimate conflict Darvid and his other selves reckoned with. Surprising vocal cadences accompanied by Darvid’s ever-lanky guitar work venture across his lyrics in startling and surreptitious ways; something his first release prementioned. ITSYC presents the intertidal zone between adolescence and adulthood; music breathing with growth and change.

The changes in ITSYC are startling, eccentric, and ecstatic. Darvid has unmoored himself from the prevailing indie paradigm and his previous, more synthesized pedigree. By fusing degrees of orchestral and cinematic arrangements, Darvid has created an album that is an extended overture to his body's emotional shifts. Phrases throughout speak to this yearning and progression as adulthood encourages him to become more cunning and extroverted with his arrangements. The Penny Quartet’s strings, Hudson Whitlock’s (Karate Boogaloo) drums, and the bands' distinct electric overlays combine for a medley of crescendos across the album, exploring life both in and out of the indie sphere, asking a question as to what else Darvid might have in store for us creatively.