The Deep Dark Woods "The Place I Left Behind"
  • West Side Street
  • The Place I Left Behind
  • Mary's Gone
  • Virginia
  • Sugar Mama
  • The Banks Of The Leopold Canal
  • Big City Lights
  • Back Alley Blues
  • I Just Can't Lose
  • Never Prove False
  • Dear John
  • The Ballad Of Frank DuPree
  • Oh What A Life
  • West Side Street
    Genre: AAA
    WAV (05:07) [51.69 MB]
  • The Place I Left Behind
    Genre: AAA
    WAV (04:05) [41.19 MB]
  • Mary's Gone
    Genre: AAA
    WAV (05:07) [51.68 MB]
  • Virginia
    Genre: AAA
    WAV (03:53) [39.2 MB]
  • Sugar Mama
    Genre: Americana
    WAV (02:39) [26.83 MB]
  • The Banks Of The Leopold Canal
    Genre: AAA
    WAV (06:08) [61.92 MB]
  • Big City Lights
    Genre: AAA
    WAV (02:47) [28.16 MB]
  • Back Alley Blues
    Genre: Americana
    WAV (04:23) [44.27 MB]
  • I Just Can't Lose
    Genre: AAA
    WAV (05:56) [59.91 MB]
  • Never Prove False
    Genre: AAA
    WAV (04:04) [41.13 MB]
  • Dear John
    Genre: AAA
    WAV (03:40) [36.96 MB]
  • The Ballad Of Frank DuPree
    Genre: AAA
    WAV (07:29) [75.48 MB]
  • Oh What A Life
    Genre: AAA
    WAV (04:29) [45.3 MB]
Biography
THE DEEP DARK WOODS | BIOGRAPHY

Chills climb spines when sound is given room to unfurl. The Deep Dark Woods’ unflinching pursuit of steadiness between decadence and minimalism is guided at every turn by their intuitive ability to balance grit, clarity, drive and restraint with a sure focus on experimentation.

Winter Hours (2009), caught critics’ ears across the country. The album, a solemn ode to darker themes of seclusion and detachment, could yet warm even the bottomless, frozen nights of hometown Saskatoon, SK. With Winter Hours, The Deep Dark Woods won Best Roots Group at the 2009 Western Canadian Music Awards, and Ensemble of the Year at the 2009 Canadian Folk Music Awards. The band also had the runaway winner in CBC’s Great Canadian Songquest with “Charlie’s (Is Coming Down)”, a song about Good Time Charlie’s in Regina.

The Deep Dark Woods frame their music with subtle orchestration; songs are trimmed with minimal embellishments of banjo, piano, with subtle Mellotron flutters. Drummer and multi-instrumentalist Lucas Goetz’s layers heartbreaking arches of pedal steel under the clarity and warmth of Ryan Boldt’s voice. Newest member, organ-player Geoff Hilhorst furnishes the songs’ edges with slurred polyphonies, while surefooted, danceable bass lines and rich second vocals belong to Chris Mason. Burke Barlow’s clarion guitar tone and lead lines are focused and impeccable.

Their new album, The Place I Left Behind, finds continuity in themes of temporal and geographic alienation, neglected inward trails, and the scars of abandoned intimacies. The album opens with a song about Saskatoon’s rougher edges. “West Side Street” is a study in contrasts – finespun vocals and a gently rolling melody cushion the gloomy story. “The Place I Left Behind” is loosely based on an old folk standard. Gorgeously morose, the title track confirms that The Deep Dark Woods capture lonesome yearning at its loveliest. “Sugar Mama” is a sweet and lively invitation to tap toes and shake off the blues; a seeming coming-of-age story is treated with playful banjo and an airy gait.

A rainstorm over the desert of modern music, The Place I Left Behind offers murder ballads alongside scrappy rockers, lovesick hymnals and slow-dance waltzes. The album illuminates folk traditions without stripping the shadows of roots music history - The Deep Dark Woods wake the ghosts of Appalachia with their prairie gothic pyre-side tales. The Place I Left Behind echoes with traces of time and space that are never fully abandoned or forgotten.
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