(D) The Music Encyclopedia of The Gravis Sub Humus

Dark - Round the Edges 1972

Dark was a British band formed in the late 60s by a few musicians that met while at school in Northampton. Their famous and incredibly rare album (because of original pressed numbers)was recorded in just two days. The guitarist & vocalist Steve Giles had a keen interest in photography and is responsible for the initial 12 gatefold copies with the woman's picture on the couch that are worth the most. A good deal of mystery surrounds the album and 90% of it was generated via the Kissing Spell label trying to squeeze every nickel they could out of group's "then" unpublished recordings. Some of which would have been much better never heard. Their one real album entitled "Round The Edges" is actually a very good guitar oriented melodic rock album with the mildest of progressive & psychedelic underpinnings. The tone of the album at times does reach "into" somewhat heavy territories, but it seems to be the scattered mildly fuzzy guitar outbreaks with competent bass & drum accompaniment that give the album this vague appearance. There are about 5 reissues available on CD and 2 or 3 on vinyl.