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Deidre & the Dark is a cinematic, technicolor world of music conceived by Brooklyn-based songwriter, vocalist & instrumentalist Deidre Muro (founder/former frontwoman of Savoir Adore). Seamlessly blending her love of 60s-era pop, rock, and standards with current electronic production, her fun and soulful tracks dance that magical line between feeling utterly classic and totally fresh. After years as a side project, 2019 sees Deidre & the Dark strut to the foreground with the debut album "Variety Hour" - a record of "nostalgic noir-pop enhanced by modern stereophonics" (Culture Collide), that feels perfectly at home on vinyl. Featuring "One Night," a "bold and brassy declaration of love for the 60s girl groups, 70s Philly soul, and modern R&B that delivers the kinds of hooks and euphoria found only in the very best pop records." (WFMU's Sheila B)

Inspired by the signature format of golden era variety television shows, each of the album's ten tracks takes on a uniquely different character. "As I was writing and imagining the flow of the record," Deidre recalls, "I pictured costume, lighting and set changes, choreography, staging... It really guided the whole creative process for me." Keeping in line with previous Deidre & the Dark releases, the tracks on Variety Hour have a vignette-esque quality, each featuring a leading lady inhabiting her own mini-world.

Variety Hour comes after a collection of singles as well as the Curious Parcel EP which features "Classic Girl" - a song which has become a staple of the band's live set, as well as a hit with film, TV & fashion collaborators, and it's own vinyl single release by Coachella record store curator Alex Rodriguez. In addition to curating numerous conceptual events in Brooklyn, Deidre is also a partner at Brooklyn music/audio production studio and record label YouTooCanWoo, where she composes for visual and musical projects and regularly collaborates with bands French Horn Rebellion and Violet Sands.

Track Listing

Sales Points

• Deidre & the Dark will have a new artist feature in the September 2019 issue of Shindig!
• For fans of Angel Olsen, Lucius, Best Coast, Monster Rally, Beck, Amy Winehouse, Leon Bridges
• Numerous Deidre & the Dark tracks appear in the film ''Record Safari,'' as well as on its vinyl soundtrack. The film is slated for release later in 2019.
• WFMU DJ and girl group expert Sheila B has been a very vocal supporter of the record, inviting the band to play live on her show and providing a quote for the marketing sticker.
• ''Variety Hour'' is the debut album from Deidre & the Dark, after years as a side project while frontwoman Deidre Muro co-led the indie pop band Savoir Adore, toured, recorded, and composed for film, tv, and ads.
• Alex Rodriguez (Coachella Record Store curator, star of the upcoming vinyl collector documentary ''Record Safari'') has been a long-time champion of the project, even pressing a limited 7' single of Deidre & the Dark's ''Classic Girl'' back in 2012.

Press Quotes

'One Night' is a bold and brassy declaration of love for the 60s girl groups, 70s Philly soul, and modern R&B that delivers the kinds of hooks and euphoria found only in the very best pop records.

     —Sheila B., WFMU

...we experience Deidre & The Dark's Variety Hour as a brilliant amalgamation of the past and present: A bright, transformative record of identity and experience, femininity, life, love, and everything in-between.

     —Mitch Mosk, Atwood Magazine

Walker Brothers soundscapes imagined anew, it's modern, kinetic, patterned and poetic.

     —The Autumn Roses

Takes the classic sound of '60s girl groups, Philly soul and a canny knack with a catchy pop song, and wraps it all up in a future-retro production ... such a joy to listen to.

     —Shindig