Dark Red

Steve Lacy wrote, produced and performed "Dark Red" alone, track three of his Demo EP at 2:53, recorded in GarageBand on an iPhone in 2017. Wikipedia's song article gives an original release of February 20, 2017, a "single" release of April 4, 2019, and a vinyl release on L-M Records on The Lo-Fis (December 4, 2020). Its chart peaks include 78 on the Hot 100, 71 on the Canadian Hot 100, 132 on the Billboard Global 200, 69 in Australia and 6 on the UK independent chart; the prose in the same article disagrees with its table on the R&B and rock chart positions, so we leave those out. It is certified platinum in the US and double platinum in the UK, and Wikipedia says it has more than two billion Spotify streams and is his most streamed song.

Geeks of Color reads it as a song about making amends and considering a breakup; we found no statement from Lacy on its lyrics. He played it with Vampire Weekend at Madison Square Garden on September 8, 2019. Setlist.fm shows it played 91 times across 123 setlists from 2017 to 2026, tied with "N Side", ahead of "Helmet" (84) and "Bad Habit" (79), and JamBase pages show it closing 2022 club shows and the Forest Hills Stadium on June 18, 2023. We found no video, covers or samples, and do not know whether our upload is the EP original.