Within the scene, Lucas is like some combination of coach, starting forward, and team mascot. Some of their songs seem to want to be taken seriously, and there are plenty of earnest moments in the Dark World catalog alongside all the jokes. A lot of their music is just as ambiguous, not just defying genre but also frequently defying normal standards of taste. It’s a label and a collective, though its members don’t often use those words, choosing instead to call it a “syndicate” or resisting classification entirely. It’s catchy and a little bit dumb, an unpolished afternoon project that sticks with you.ĭark World is a group of 20-plus boys, most of them from the woodsy towns of Western Massachusetts.
Filmed on VHS then crudely edited in iMovie, the video is a no-budget, vaguely gothic posse showcase that happens to be set in a barn. The stumbly beat was made by Nick Atkinson, 20, who goes by Ghost, and the song features Cooper’s angelically reverbed voice too. DJ Lucas - is probably the closest thing Dark World has to a “hit.” Lucas raps on the track, his flow growl-like. With nearly 47,000 YouTube views at the time of this writing, “Creme De La Creme” - a murky earworm by 22-year-old Lucas Kendall, a.k.a. It’s avant-garde in an innocent way: the production is tinny and cheap-sounding, and something about Cooper’s vocal just feels off, as if English wasn’t his first language. In the clip, he sits backwards on an old wooden chair and exaggeratedly mouths the words: She say she wanna dance with me/ But she don’t know how. Handy, a baby-faced singer who records as Lucy.
For a portion of the video, he wiggles around in a down comforter, like a lumpy caterpillar with a human head.Ī few dozen clips later, there’s an unhinged ballad called “She Say She Wana” by Cooper B. When the song starts, Gods Wisdom’s delivery is coarse and phlegmy and slurred, sounding sort of like chopped-and-screwed screamo or some kind of evil, bedroom-pop approximation of crunk music. It opens with footage of sitcom legend Roseanne Barr talking about the CIA mind control in Hollywood. There’s a homespun video for a sort-of rap song called “Christian Dior,” for example, that was made by a 22-year-old named Ruvi Ender Arnold, who records as Gods Wisdom. Dark World’s YouTube page is easy to get lost in.