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For many years, Toronto’s melodic hardcore crushers Mil-Spec have been one of the most consistently kickass bands on the hardcore underground. They always bring the big, climactic mosh moments, but they never stop exploring. A couple of months ago, they released a new self-titled EP<\/a>, and it kicks ass. Meanwhile, we’ve got guitarist Dan Darrah releasing solo music that sounds absolutely nothing like Mil-Spec.<\/p>\n Dan Darrah seems to have a bit of a Kvelertak\/King H\u00fcsky thing going on between Mil-Spec and his solo records. On his own, Darrah releases twangy, dreamy, acoustic-heavy indie rock without a shred of aggression in its bones. His music is really, really pretty, and he makes a lot of it. Earlier this year, Darrah released his album There’s A Place<\/a><\/em>. On Friday, he quietly followed it with a new one called Vacationland<\/em>. I spent some time with the record over the weekend, and it sounded great in the background while I was reading a book. I suggest you play it for yourself, possibly while also reading a book. It’s below.<\/p>\n Vacationland<\/em> is out now on Sunday Drive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source stereogum.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For many years, Toronto’s melodic hardcore crushers Mil-Spec have been one of the most consistently kickass bands on the hardcore underground. They always bring the big, climactic mosh moments, but they never stop exploring. A couple of months ago, they released a new self-titled EP, and it kicks ass. Meanwhile, we’ve got guitarist Dan Darrah […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2202183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2202182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mil-Specs-Dan-Darrah-Shares-New-Album-Vacationland.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2202182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202184,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202182\/revisions\/2202184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2202183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}