The phrase "a dark record" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a history or background that is negative, troubling, or associated with wrongdoing.
Example: "The company has a dark record of environmental violations that has raised concerns among activists."
Alternatives: "a troubling history" or "a sinister background."
Though its synthetic sounds are mostly approachable, rarely jarring a listener into surprise or confusion, it is a dark record, and much of it would be difficult to dance to.
"For a minute I thought I was going to do a dark record, but then I let the light in and that is what the prism does," Perry said in a recent interview about the album.
Watch here This is from a really dark record we made in 2008 [The Narrow Stairs] and I'm proud of it, but I feel I've written all I can from that emotional palette.
It was a complex and dark record: Carrie had left her family when Stevens was a year old, and most of his contact with her thereafter came when he and his siblings would make summer visits to her in Oregon, where she lived with her second husband Lowell.
Then we go into a small, dark recording booth and say it into a microphone a few times.
The LA-based band replaced lead singer Carah Faye, and released a much darker record with a new front lady called Season of Poison.
This was to make the song not suitable for airplay as the band wanted to make a "dark epic record".
It's a dark, hypnotic record pairing shoegaze synths with trill snares and clouds of paranoid energy, like Three Six Mafia for art school weirdos in 2021.
Their Capicúa EP for ZZK is a dark, worldly record with clever references and ideas drawn from across eras and vast distances haunted-house organs andistances haunted-houses that recall Tijuana's Lorgansuands, dubwise throbbingth echo pedalsynth reverb, salsa-style piano vamps, androneshedelic guithatlicks lifted direcall from old chicha records.
That's what passes for humor on this otherwise entrancingly dark record.
"If we were trying to make a big, successful major label record, we certainly turned in the wrong record," says Gibbard. "We recorded this very introspective, quiet, dark record, with hardly any 'rock' moments on it.
