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Smell The Roses

by Suburban Dark

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited Edition 12" of Suburban Dark's new album Smell The Roses

    Includes unlimited streaming of Smell The Roses via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Get our latest EP 'Smell The Roses' and our previous LP 'Death From Below' on Vinyl in a special offer bundle!!

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83 Wars 04:03
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Just casually watching the oil spill slowly slick and fill the sea with dark, and Atlas getting sick to death of playing the victim like he gives a fuck. These days he’s just holding up our ego, amassed to a ball of hash that’s smoked and blown out on the regal. To the ether. Like we’re either on that muster for the jewel encrusted lever-keepers, branded with an iron, gripeing the over reach with the divas, or teaching a ravenous flock of the newcomers, the bummers of living in millipede,locking the legs into unison, pushing the sandstone for the bitter-sweet. Pylons til the grim reap. Rock-picks to the roadwork fucker. Rewards for the new meat. 6 feet for the old man mutton. You can watch that oil spill from the sideways glance, of the cocktail swill in you and your ilk’s iconified class and paying it no mind. We’re eyeball level for sitting to witness the creeks clog, every capillary filling with menace and gunk, coughing the street smog. Rats out in the brittle breeze, trying to hide the sick, swarming round the nucleus, fiending for a fix. Just know that even when the trample has been bred into the flock, there’ll still be a couple torches flaming fierce up the block, that couldn’t be snubbed out… for now. Crammed into the carousel. Crammed into the carousel. Jammed in that revolving door. Rammed into a revolution. Huffing on eachothers fumes. Crammed into the carousel. Crammed into the carousel. Rammed into a revolution. And each of our gods be lining up, taking their turns at Midas touch, licking their mandibles, watching us setting a fire to files of binding trust. The fabric of any defining line of life, innards of bile and puss, pooping that practical anarchy outta the cavity onto the shelf to dust. Relics of positive energy, looping together to puzzle an enemy, stripes on a zebra, vendetta mask, community meet-up. To a dream scape like a site map for the brand lords, Like a Claymation of an ancient civilisation and its downfall. But even when the trample has been bred into the flock, there’ll still be a couple torches flaming fierce up the block, that couldn’t be snubbed out… for now. Crammed into the carousel. Crammed into the carousel. Jammed in that revolving door. Rammed into a revolution. Huffing on eachothers fumes. Crammed into the carousel. Crammed into the carousel. Rammed into a revolution.
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DDP 04:00
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White Trash 03:28
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Useless 03:26

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Following on from their 2018 full length album Death From Below, Suburban Dark continue their unrelenting rate of attack with Smell The Roses – a grim and brooding 6-track release maintaining the dark and heavy ethos of the production duo while honing the focus of their violent sonic approach. The nightmarish visions are richer in detail and the Sydney boys’ “Fight Beats” approach continues in full force.

Chris Irvine (one half of the duo) describes its bleak underlying narrative: “Smell The Roses is in a similar vein to Death From Below, only it’s set after the rebellion ... and we lost. It embodies a unifying stance of power from a position of having little to nothing.”

Focused on its brutal aggressive onslaught of beats, the EP admits only one guest feature - the ferocious Mathas. The Perth MC has a trail of his own accolades including WA Music Industry’s coveted Song of the Year award (the first ever for a rap or electronic artist), a pile of Best Urban Act awards and countless album award nominations. His cadence laces the lead single/title track of the release as he paints the picture of a dystopian near-future.

Suburban Dark’s previous full-length releases, Death From Below and Second Front featured a host of Sydney’s finest hip hop MCs from Jeswon and Tuka of Thundamentals, to underground MCs Grey Ghost and fellow Big Village MCs, P.Smurf, Rapaport and Ellesquire. Death From Below containing the crushingly massive ‘Supernova’ (featuring longtime collaborator Jeswon) and the hypnotic banger ‘Remember Your Code’ which enjoyed strong airplay; Second Front received outstanding reviews from Drum Media, FBi Radio and The Brag and garnered a Zan Rowe (Triple J) interview.

Long considered the producer's 'producer' the 'Smell The Roses' EP firmly cements Suburban Dark as ones to watch, with their new work taking it to a whole new level.

With a new full band setup created to manifest their powerful loud sound, Suburban Dark launch their new release on Saturday May 18th at the Sly Fox at 8pm with supports from Perth MC Mathas, Rapaport and Alchemist.

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released May 3, 2019

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Suburban Dark Sydney, Australia

Music not to be messed with, Suburban Dark (SD) is a duo hell-bent on keeping things straight and tough. Self-described as “fight beats”, their analog-synthesizer infused sound is deep, minimal and razor sharp, intended to be played loud.

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