You are listening to Nakedly Examine Music, a podcast about songs and songwriters.

My name is Mark Lintonmeyer.

My guest for episode 245 is Canadian guitarist Darren Michael Boyd, who, after releasing an EP and a single in 2018,

turned pretty much entirely to guitar-led instrumentals,

and he's released six albums of that since 2019.

You're right now hearing the title track to the second of those albums,

Wonders of the Invisible World.

We're going to talk today about the day beneath yesterday

from his new album, Perpetual

Night, Broken Glass and Disappointment from his 2022 album, Thoughts and Scares.

Then we'll look back to the first of those albums, The Earth is B-flat, from Lifting the Curse

2019.

And we'll conclude by listening to another song from the new album, Dangerous Curbs.

You can learn more about Darren at Darren Boyd.com or Darren Michaelboid.boyd.bandcamp.com.

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And you'll get to see the notes that I use for these interviews that diagram the songs, highlighting the potential discussion points, and often providing comments that don't make it into the interview. Let's get going.

So I will have played a little of the title track from Wonders of the Invisible World, your second full album to warm people up. It's definitely a solid metal bass, but you do so much more than that.

Do you want to give a little sketch? I see you've got six albums since about 2019, a few,

an EP and a single and things before that, where you actually had a singer, but all your

full albums have been just you. Oh, yeah. Yeah, do you want to say a little about the,

the shape of this career here before we get into the first song here? I was playing in a, I think

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