Springtime Halloween Surprise Love Songs from The Darts!

Posted : March 21st, 2026

The Darts have released Halloween Love Songs just in time to spook up your springtime! The music is a fast-paced mix of surfish Munster-ific retro organ-and-guitar and crashing drums with vocals reminiscent of The Black Belles and, at times, Lords of Acid, and would be perfectly home at a beach party hosted by the Boulet Brothers. And I mean all of that in the best way you can mean it.

Or as singer/songwriter Nicole Laurenne put it: “During a 2024 interview with Rock n Folk magazine in Paris, I jokingly mentioned that the world needed some new Halloween songs – that the holiday deserved so much more than just “Monster Mash,” and no one seemed serious about filling that void. So I got serious about it. But I also didn’t want an album that was just monster-costumes-on-the-playground. So, Side A is chock full of tasty, candy-colored Halloween kitsch, to be played while trick-or-treating as the sun sets, blasted over a school’s public address system, and headlining every seasonal sing-along. But Side B is the soundtrack for after dark, when the bonfire is raging. It’s for sweaty middle-of-the-night dancing, making out on a bed of empty candy wrappers, and spinning through an all-nighter apocalypse.”

While we disagree with Miss Laurenne that “the world needed some new Halloween songs… and no one seemed serious about filling that void” (check our posts from recent years to the contrary), we certainly are always happy when somebody makes more, and have happily added this album to the ever-growing collection!

Halloween Love Songs is available right now at https://thedartsus.bandcamp.com/album/halloween-love-songs