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“It can be hard to be a rock musician in New Orleans, and we knew we needed elements to make it a little different,” says Darcy Malone, lead singer of Darcy Malone and the Tangle. “What we’re trying to achieve is rock/soul, with elements of something catchy—something like Ike & Tina Turner meets XTC.” The inherent contradiction in those disparate reference points is the driving force behind Darcy Malone and the Tangle. Since its inception, band founders Malone — daughter of the Radiators’ Dave Malone — and her husband, Tangle singer/guitarist Christopher Boye, wanted a project unburdened by traditional genre limitations.

At the Tangle’s core is a desire to create music that incorporated Malone’s background of soul and pop with Boye’s love of indie/underground rock and roll. However, Darcy Malone and the Tangle’s sound soon grew to be much more than a simple marriage of soul and indie rock.…