MusicInsiderDarkstar: 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. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREBjörk calls for the release of musician ‘kidnapped’ by Israeli authorities‘Her dumbest album yet’: Are Swifties turning on Taylor Swift?ZimmermannKindred spirits and psychedelic florals: Zimmermann heads to 70s Sydney IB Kamara on branching out into musicEnter the K-Bass: How SCR revolutionised Korean club culture‘Comic Con meets underground rap’: Photos from Eastern Margins’ day festWho are H.LLS? Get to know London’s anonymous alt-R&B trioTaylor Swift has lost her grip with The Life of a Showgirl ‘Cold Lewisham nights’: Behind the scenes at Jim Legxacy’s debut UK tour All the pettiest pop beefs of 2025Has the algorithm killed music discovery? What went down at Fari Islands Festival