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This very first track sets up the mood for the rest of the record perfectly: it’s trippy, it’s mysterious, and it has a great sense of fashion. The bass-line in this song is catchy and stylish, and manages to stick in your head for hours. And, what is equally important, the record doesn’t wait too much to capture the listener’s attention: the beginning of the very first track “Kirameki No Naka De” (which is, if I’m not mistaken, stands for “Into The Glittering”) gets at you with the first sound of a tender guitar melody played in reverse.

The album holds up extremely well because the songs don’t repeat themselves: every track on the record has something to bring to the table.

And back in 1993 they sure stepped into a darker corner of the chosen spectrum. Buck-Tick somehow mixed conventional rock, pop and a dash of punk with a gothic twist, being as buoyant and easy-going as melancholic and introverted. Their music was quite merciful for the ear, devoid of despondency and frustration but it was nevertheless very colorful in its atmosphere.

The name is quite spot on, despite that Buck-Tick never were REALLY dark, their sound always being somewhere at the periphery of the “pop-rock” label. “Darker Then Darkness” is Buck-Tick’s seventh studio album and arguably one of their best. The newborn grunge heroes Nirvana put out their final studio effort “In Utero”, reversing the recently mainstream-turned genre to it’s roots 80s teen icons Depeche Mode step into a new phase with the hauntingly beautiful and erotic “Songs Of Faith And Devotion”, mixing their synth-pop origins with alternative rock tendencies The Smashing Pumpkins came up with the classic teenage angst hymn “Siamese Dream” the UK was submerging to the brit-pop craze with Suede ahead of the wave.Īnd meanwhile, a Japanese band that had just celebrated its tenth anniversary came up with masterly crafted record that absorbed every possible influence from the West and beyond. Review Summary: The audio equivalent of the greatest summer night ever.