PHOTO CREDITS (for entire post): Kavan Cardoza (Kavan the Kid)

[DARK OXYGEN] is a periodic series at the Sights and Sounds where I collect a dark star explosion of the best dark indietronica out there. A lot of people can’t breathe in the black hole spaces that moody, sexual, slightly deranged and aspirational pop creates; but if you’re as big a fan of the genre as I am, you know dark pop can replace the air you breathe, like [DARK OXYGEN]

Dark pop tells stories, so each soundcast will feature popular and up and coming artists who bring that dichtomous feeling of cinematic tragedy and heartbreaking hope to their music. All tied together with a punch/smattering to the heart of images, music and chevére videos. This time I feature:

ARAABMUZIK/ PY/ RIHANNA/
MARIBOU STATE/ANDREW BAYER/
REFS/ BLVTH/ JUSTIN VERNON

This is the new America
We are the new America
And I carry you with me

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ARCA//SAD BITCH
PY// GHOST DANCE

You jumpstart my feelings
I’m tired of these wallows
That get stuck into your head

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MARIBOU STATE// THE CLOWN (FT. PEDESTRIAN)

So lost, so far from home
For you I played the clown
Did what I had to
For you, too long

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REFS// PAIN GOES AWAY
JUSTIN VERNON// TIME’S GONE INSIDE OUT (SPOON REWORK)

There’s intense gravity in you
Call you any time I want
And my pain goes away

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