March 6 | Written By Simon White

Glaswegian outfit Killing Our Darlings are back with their first single since 2021, The Ink and the Black. This six-piece group have been releasing music as early as 2015 and are in the process of writing their debut album. If The Ink and the Black is anything to go off, this record will be one to look out for. With a sound as gloomy as the Glasgow weather, Killing Our Darlings first graced our ears with their 2017 release The Hospital Song EP. Starting as they mean to continue, this four-track EP encompasses their juxtaposing sound – airy but heavy. Between The Hospital Song EP and The Ink and the Black, Killing Our Darlings have released nine singles where the full extent of their influences can be heard. Ranging from ‘Counting Zero’, a very post-2006 Deftones sound with its muffled vocals and guitars drowning in fuzz and reverb, all the way to 2020’s ‘Anemic’ which could well be and alternate universe The Cure where Robert Smith is Scottish. Anyway, enough of the old, onto the new!

Aside from this, it’s worth reiterating how clear the rest of the recording is; the backing vocals and bass power through to really create a wonderful soundscape on The Ink and the Black.

Killing Our Darlings have really started off 2023 with a bang, and audience’s should be very hopeful for much of the same from this Glasgow outfit. The Ink and the Black is an adolescent teenager of a track, gloomy, angry, melodic, but brutal. Keep up the good work fellas!

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