The Darién Gap Return With “In Miniature” EP

No pretense. No delusions of grandeur. Quietly loud. The Darién Gap make music because they have to. With decades of experience writing, playing, and touring, for the duo of Mike Thompson (drums, guitars, and bass) and Brian Moss (vocals, guitars, and bass), creation is a compulsive and cathartic labor of love. In Miniature, the follow up to 2023’s Haunted Lots, was written and self-recorded in a bedroom practice space and DIY studio in the sleepy, fog-shrouded coastal hamlet of Los Osos, CA. The self released album is now available through streaming platforms and on limited edition 180 gram one sided vinyl via Bandcamp.

The In Miniature EP moves through rage, pensiveness, and fleeting moments of melancholic beauty via an amalgamation of Moss’ projects, including Great Apes, Olehole, The Ghost, and Hanalei, and Thompson’s stylized take on a myriad of punk subgenres. It lives between familiar and foreign. Lyrically, it is a fictional series of vignettes that focus on fractured characters, relationships, and places, cultural voids, existential dread, the doomed state of current affairs, and a faint flicker of hope. For its creators, it serves as a means of coping, expression, and exploration.