Flood Tide also premiered in 2013 at the Torino Film Festival, exposing the world to the group’s rich and evocative soundtrack for the very first time.
After releasing the much praised debut album on melodic 'Wild Go' in 2011, the band followed up with full-length 'Who Needs Who' in 2012, and then the 'What I Needed' EP in 2013, a year that saw them tour the world, play two ATP’s within 6 months (curated by The National and TV On The Radio), as well as create a score to Jerome Hill's La Cartomancienne. The film and soundtrack release comes after a fruitful and productive few years for the group. All of this is accompanied by an original, nineteen song soundtrack by Dark Dark Dark. Set within artist Swoon’s floating junk sculptures project, ‘Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea’, Flood Tide both documents and reimagines the real-life journey of Swoon and her collaborators as they build boats out of junk and set out on the open water of the Hudson River. Flood Tide is written and directed by former band member Todd Chandler, and features the band both as characters and performers. Here the group’s involvement with Flood Tide runs much, much deeper. However, this is not simply a film score commission. So it makes perfect sense that they would end up in the world of cinema. There’s always been a hugely cinematic tone to Dark Dark Dark’s music, be it through the immersive sense of atmosphere much of the instrumentation and vocals instill, or the image-strewn lyrics and sense of place that can transport the listener to another world.
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