Music / InsiderDarkstar: A Good Year For The RosesThe West Yorkshire band explain how they left the riots to record the year's most haunting, colourful album in this Dazed filmShareLink copied ✔️February 8, 2013MusicInsiderTextCharlie Robin JonesFilmAlexandros Pissourios After writing their devasting, melancholic first album minutes from London's murder mile, Darkstar moved back home to rural West Yorkshire. There they worked with Richard Formby, and discovered a new, colourful, precision take on British electronic psychedilia. 'News From Nowhere', which you can listen below, has been heralded as an instant classic across the board. The week before release, James Buttery, James Young and Aiden Whalley went down to Alexandros Pissourios's studio in Hackney Wick to record the above film for Dazed Digital, and we hope you enjoy it. Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREThe 5 best tracks from April 2026‘The stage is my ring’: Natanya is bringing WWE energy to pop PolaroidThree Dazed Clubbers on documenting a complete digital detoxDid this 90s art film actually inspire Beyoncé’s ‘Hold Up’ music video?Kneecap, Erika de Casier, Smerz and more call to boycott Eurovision Oakley What Went Down at Oakley’s Field Gear Line Collection launch Ethel Cain’s Coachella stage was a ‘graveyard of American industry’TOMORA are the dance-pop superduo out to ‘connect unexpected people’If Geese are a psy-op, so is everything elseA deep dive into the fan-led SOPHIE archive projectThe secret history of Black British musicSilvana Estrada: ‘Bad Bunny is my hero, but Latin America is a continent’ Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy