title: Darker (album)
text: # Darker (album)
  
  Darker is the debut studio album of C-Tec, released on 1 September 1997 by Synthetic Symphony. The album showcases the band wanting to experiment by integrating different styles and textures into their compositions after the release of their 1995 EP Cyber-Tec. On 5 October 2018 the album was reissued as a music download with an additional track titled "My Unbreakable Code" and written by Marc Heal.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | Pitchfork Media | (8.2/10) |
  
  Greg Prato of AllMusic said "the aptly titled Darker is industrial-influenced, aggressive electronic dance music with all of the necessary ingredients for success -- the vocals are sung with the mandatory pissed-off foreign accent, and the music drills into your brain with ease." Pitchfork Media described the music as having "high-energy, egomaniacal attitudes" and claimed "as any good darkwave album would, it also takes a plunge into the lonelier side of despair and isolation." In May 1998 the album peaked at numbers eight and sixty-one on CMJ New Music Monthly's top dance releases and top radio airplay.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All lyrics are written by Jean-Luc de Meyer, except "Epitaph" written by Dorothy Parker.
  
  ## Accolades
  
  | Year | Publication | Country | Accolade | Rank |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1998 | CMJ New Music Monthly | United States | "Top 25 Dance" | 8 |
  | 1998 | CMJ New Music Monthly | United States | "CMJ Radio Airplay: Top 75" | 61 |
  | "*" denotes an unordered list. ||||||
  
  ## Personnel
  
  Adapted from the Darker liner notes.
  
  C-Tec
  
  * Jean-Luc De Meyer – vocals
  * Ged Denton – keyboards
  * Marc Heal – keyboards, vocals, production
  
  'Additional performers
  
  * Phil Barry – sampler
  * Rhys Fulber – sampler, additional production
  * Björn Jünemann – sampler
  * Daniel Myer – sampler
  * Dejan Samardzic – sampler
  
  Production and design
  
  * Jim Marcus – cover art (reissue)
  * Doug Martin – engineering, additional production
  * Jules Seifert – remastering (reissue)
  
  ## Release history
  
  | Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Europe | 1997 | Synthetic Symphony | CD | CD 085-61572 SPV |
  | United States | 1997 | Wax Trax!/TVT | CD | TVT 7252 |
  | United States | 1998 | Wax Trax!/TVT | CS | TVT 7252 |
  | Poland | 2004 | Союз/Synthetic Symphony | CS | 085-61572 SPV |
  | United Kingdom | 2018 | Armalyte Industries | DL | |
  