You can’t silence the weird kids.

FEATURED IMAGE PHOTO CREDIT// EDSON CHAGAS

[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. Dark pop gets a bad rap for being dramatic, but it’s all about being effortlessly cool. It’s also a respite in the world for the weird kids. 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]

Each soundcast will feature popular and up and coming artists who bring that dichtomous feeling of cinematic tragedy and heartbreaking hope to their music. This time:

Dan Deacon / The Internet /
Peaches / Tanlines / Space Captain /
Gener8ion + M.I.A. / Kid Francescoli

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DAN DEACON// MEME GENERATOR

People are programmed to accept so little
You are the power source
Your body, your nervous system
Your energy

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Don’t be a meme generator. Be a fucking human.

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You can’t scrub out the strange.

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THE INTERNET// GIRL (FT. kAYTRANADA)
SPACE CAPTAIN// EASIER

Passion burning
Causing rapture of laughter
Pressure building
Falling faster and faster

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Those missing parts are our moxy.

PHOTO CREDIT// ANATOL KNOTEK
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KID FRANCESCOLI// DOES SHE?
PEACHES// LIGHT IN PLACES (FT. EMPRESS STAH)

[Zie] only wrote one book
A dark story of
Love, Alcohol and
A plan that went really bad

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I got light in places
You didn’t know it could shine
So much beauty coming out my ass

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Silence my sounds; silence my searching, sexy eyes.

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GENER8ION + M.I.A.// THE NEW INTERNATIONAL SOUND PT. II

The ones that govern me
Ain’t the ones that can power me
It’s the sun and moon
That’s turning me
If I get high it’s burning me
You can’t kill the love in me

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BRB.

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Not.

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TANLINES//PALACE

And my heart beats slow
But I never get lonely

It was like falling into fiction

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