Dope Purple – Children In The Darkness

In this case, proper preparation for the storm looks like this: Leave the hut, take off your fear with your shirt, look ahead, know only one goal: the eye of the thing looming on the horizon. It doesn’t take long before it’s there. On Children Of Darkness by Taipei’s DOPE Purple, the electric and bass guitars maintain order for a long time while keeping the tension high: their mantra-like playing ensures that you can still anticipate the chaos, even though the saxophone has long since squealed and the synthesizer alarm sounds as if it were announcing a second leak in the reactor. And then it goes on. Further and further and deeper. The psych-rock of DOPE PURPLE shows no interest in finding the light at the end of the tunnel. Surrendering instead of rising is the name of the game.