Halloween Love Songs

On their 2026 full-length, The Darts distill their garage-punk venom into a tightly-wound conceptual piece, Halloween Love Songs. The album pivots from broad horror pastiche to the specific, shadowy terrain of macabre romance, where devotion becomes vampiric and longing turns spectral. Nicole Laurenne’s signature Farfisa organ stabs through a dense wall of fuzz-drenched guitars and primal, driving rhythms, creating a soundscape that is both claustrophobic and cinematic. The production balances raw, analog fidelity with a newfound narrative depth, cementing the band’s aesthetic by transforming B-movie tropes into potent allegories for obsessive love.