Bleep

There must have been something in the water in late 1970s New York. Musician, performance artist and writer Robin Crutchfield, shortly after leaving the pioneering no wave outfit DNA — which he co-founded alongside Arto Lindsay — he embarked on a magnificent sonic journey of his own as Dark Day. Darkest Before Dawn, originally released on Taedium Vitae in 1989, finds Crutchfield well into his multivalent craft, opting for pipe organ ditties and a vague flavour of the medieval.