Some Days Are Darker – NDRI

A longing for authenticity

A song that gets right under your skin from the very first second. With ‘NDRI’, Some Days Are Darker present an incred­ibly emo­tion­al track that gripped me straight away. Sonically, the US trio take a rather sub­dued yet immensely dense dir­ec­tion, under­pinned by a subtle, shad­owy dark wave influ­ence. I’m par­tic­u­larly fas­cin­ated by the clev­erly placed breaks and bridges, they lend the track a won­der­ful dynam­ic and divide the com­pos­i­tion acous­tic­ally, as if into mas­ter­fully writ­ten chapters.

Hovering above this sombre yet eleg­ant synth pop back­drop are the clearly artic­u­lated vocals, whose gentle and sooth­ing sound provide the per­fect coun­ter­point. Lyrically, the song revolves around the pain­ful long­ing for authen­ti­city and the inner con­flict between emo­tion­al numb­ness and pure, vis­cer­al feel­ing. The line ‘The things we desire in life are the same things that des­troy us’ sums up this fas­cin­a­tion per­fectly. For me, ‘NDRI’ is an all-round suc­cess­ful, atmo­spher­ic masterpiece.

Listen to "Some Days Are Darker – NDRI" on Spotify

Listen to "Some Days Are Darker – NDRI" on Bandcamp

Lyrics of "Some Days Are Darker – NDRI"

she painted her eyes with gold
flowers adorned the walls
in the room we shared
so physical
she watches me come undone
I try to be like a stone
but I crave her touch
so visceral

end­lessly try­ing to tame
some­thing that can’t be contained

all that we ever want
all that we ever need
all that we ever want
is to feel
anything

all that we ever want
all that we ever need
as to feel
some­thing real
or not to feel
any­thing at all

I want her all to myself
I’m think­ing of noth­ing else
and the lines we’ve drawn
invisible
her body becomes so warm
my mind is a raging storm
and the moves we make
are magical

the things we desire in life
are the same things that des­troy us
that’s the beauty

all that we want
all that we need
is just to feel