FELIX LABAND

merch Dark Days Exit (Extended Version) by Felix Laband Wishlist supported by Colonel Kapow thumbnail L a r r d thumbnail the88pandas thumbnail STEFF thumbnail M. Fleur thumbnail Decay'X thumbnail Krysalis thumbnail aangen thumbnail vins0n thumbnail stefandio thumbnail mattia thumbnail silentvision thumbnail ohsolow thumbnail Matt Pape thumbnail L'ami Mo thumbnail IllIlIllIl thumbnail cptbradbury thumbnail marcelmanz thumbnail Gregory Elizabeth thumbnail SpagettiJimmy thumbnail YEM BOOGIE thumbnail lutzp thumbnail The Golden Needle thumbnail A_Dallas thumbnail thegleeper thumbnail Brian Carney thumbnail Bruce Cairns thumbnail glassfishuk thumbnail radioduborddeleau thumbnail Peter Edwards thumbnail Karsten thumbnail Mark Hawksbridge thumbnail Alexander Tashov thumbnail Danino thumbnail apsychotriabloom thumbnail michaelpfennings thumbnail ubergriff thumbnail JT thumbnail jamespatrickm thumbnail brynd thumbnail martinrigden thumbnail K. Adam thumbnail dreamcrungle thumbnail numkat thumbnail arimalmb thumbnail rick-roche thumbnail kmadamow thumbnail beowulf1411 thumbnail kreybaumgartl thumbnail dudson thumbnail animale42 thumbnail nuvoleon thumbnail thomasthalheim thumbnail whynaughtzoidberg thumbnail thumbnail tucsonhans thumbnail gwtf thumbnail Defect63 thumbnail henrik24 thumbnail Karl Grunick thumbnail gkiely72 thumbnail felix_caspar thumbnail larskorff thumbnail Griffo thumbnail petcor thumbnail anb82 thumbnail Whistling In Tongues 00:00 / 07:51 Streaming + Download Pre-order of Dark Days Exit (Extended Version). You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released. Download available in 16-bit/44.1kHz. releases October 23, 2026 €9.90 EUR or more Record/Vinyl + Digital Album package image package image Includes digital pre-order of Dark Days Exit (Extended Version). You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released. Download available in 16-bit/44.1kHz. shipping out on or around October 23, 2026 €29.90 EUR or more 1. Whistling In Tongues 07:51 2. Miss Teardrop 3. Dirty Nightgown 4. Soft Hands Tremble 5. Falling Off A Horse 6. Sleeping Household 7. Crooked Breath 8. Underneath The Skin (Vinyl Edit) 03:15 9. Quietly Up The Stairs 10. Red Handed 11. Black Shoes 12. The Written Word Remains 13. Black Shoes (Alternative Version) 14. Radio Right Now 15. Minka 10:35 16. Down Beneath The River about Felix Laband's highly acclaimed electronica masterpiece album "Dark Days Exit" (2005) is now available as an Extended Version 2LP vinyl. Originally planned for last year's 20th anniversary, this special edition features a new design by Felix Laband and includes a double-sided DIN A2 art print. Dark Days Exit features four exclusive tracks, alongside five vinyl-only tracks available for the first time in their original long versions. Listening to the key track, Sleeping Household, on Dark Days Exit is unsettling: like being an impostor rambling around an uncanny house, a Lynchian leitmotif in the form of a young girl divulging secrets that you probably shouldn't hear. Dark Days Exit is an album that paints an interior landscape, an invitation to transgress private thresholds. Made with old-school production tools that require hands-on application, Dark Days Exit is a sound-production tour de force. The music is as wide as the savannah and microscopic at the same time, a lesson in what can be achieved when 'music' is placed on an equal footing with sound as a phenomenon, by an artist who decides to apply themselves without reserve. The masterful manipulation of reverb and delays and hyper-detail was a generation ahead of its time, and Dark Days Exit is preferred by audiophiles for testing their systems. Dark Days Exit is intimate, demanding, and a masterclass in tension, and Laband's ability to use all sound without hierarchy to paint a detailed personal vision — one that is less overtly political and streetwise than on subsequent albums — is unsurpassed. Most discerning listeners are into music because, in the hands of a master, it can manipulate our mood and transport us. Felix Laband opens with a sonic portrait of spring happiness and gradually dismantles the atmosphere in front of our ears, as epitomised by the haunting track Black Shoes. No sooner are we afraid than the artist drops us off where we started. In many ways, the intimacy derives from the tight group of friends and believers whom Laband corralled as contributors: Mark van Niekerk (xylophone, "Miss Teardrop"), Jane Rademeyer (clarinet, "Black Shoes," "Radio Right Now"), Brendon Bussy (mandolin, "Black Shoes"), and Derek Gripper (sampled violin, used throughout) and Alex van Heerden on Minka. The difficulty in categorising Dark Days Exit is probably due to Laband listening mostly to ambient and classical music at the time, and consequently registering the album at the lush, cinematic end of the electronic spectrum. There is poise and restraint in the spare use of beats, and when they do appear, they hit hard. Forged in the optimistic post-apartheid years, Dark Days Exit is music about life and death, spanning hope, despair, terror, tension, with humour and empathy. Twenty one years on, the album's gravity endures, due to its almost perverse authenticity, its timeless themes of hope and despair, and its apex level of technical mastery. The additional, immaculately produced tracks add new rooms to the uncanny house we are invited into.