Dark Pool
Studio album by
Black Rain
ReleasedAugust 12, 2014 (2014-08-12)
Genre
Length41:00
LabelBlackest Ever Black
ProducerStuart Argabright
Black Rain chronology
Protoplasm
(2013)		 Dark Pool
(2014)		 Apophis
(2015)

Dark Pool is the third studio album by Black Rain, released on August 12, 2014 by Blackest Ever Black.[1][2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork Media(7.5/10)[3]

In their review of Dark Pool, Fact said "in an age where much dance music is set on exploring lurid, hyperreal visions of emotion and sensuality, there's something quite enervating about Black Rain's refusal of sensation: its unyielding adherence to a darkside mentality into which no warmth can leak."[4] Pitchfork Media said the "songs at album’s center are the most visceral" and "throughout, the productions of Argabright and Shimokawa move deep into queasy dark ambient territory, yet there’s a noir-ish, cinematic sense pervading every track[3] The Quietus also commended the album, saying "standing on the previous work of Black Rain, Dark Pool reads as an evolution rather that a sudden jump to the present, and smart sequencing increases the overall effectiveness of the music to lend a narrative feel to the album."[5]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Stuart Argabright, except "Profusion II" co-written with Alison Lewis

No.TitleLength
1."Dark Pool"0:53
2."Profusion"2:47
3."Watering Hole"3:16
4."Endourban"4:00
5."Burst"3:22
6."Xibalba Road Metamorph"5:31
7."Data River"4:27
8."Night in New Chiang Saen"3:46
9."Protoplasm"6:28
10."Profusion II (fallofthehouseofagodabiomechanical)"3:42
11."Who Will Save the Tiger?"2:48

Personnel

Adapted from the Dark Pool liner notes.[6]

Black Rain

Production and design

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog
United Kingdom 2014 Blackest Ever Black CS, DL, LP BLACKEST009

References

  1. ↑ "Black Rain: Dark Pool > Overview". AllMusic. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Black Rain: Dark Pool (Blackest Ever Black)". Headphone Commute. 2007. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  3. 1 2 Beta, Andy (October 17, 2016). "Black Rain: Dark Pool". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  4. ↑ Pattison, Louis (September 9, 2014). "Black Rain: Dark Pool". Fact. Trident Press. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  5. ↑ Freeman, Albert (October 6, 2014). "Black Rain: Dark Pool". The Quietus. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  6. ↑ Dark Pool (booklet). Black Rain. London, United Kingdom: Blackest Ever Black. 2014.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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