My Dark Places is a 2006 album by the English Post-punk band the Television Personalities. It was the band's first recording in 11 years, following 1998's Don't Cry Baby, It's Only a Movie.
Reception The critic Douglas Wolke described My Dark Places as "the band's saddest, most chaotic album. Much of it was improvised in the studio; at times, it recalls Mr. Barrett's edge-of-madness songs. Mr. Treacy's wobbly, desperate vocals suggest that he's on the verge of collapsing into sobs. In fact, he said, he did break down a few times during the recording, overwhelmed by making music for the first time in 11 years. "It's the way I like to work," he added. "I like to hurt when I'm working.""
In their review, Rolling Stone wrote that "this influential Brit duo put together a low-fi collage of electronic gurgles and folky patter, with [the vocalist] spluttering stream-of-consciousness poetry in his snaggletoothed cockney croon."
Track listing All tracks composed by Daniel Treacy "Special Chair" – 3:03 "All the Young Children on Crack" – 3:13 "Sick Again" – 2:15 "Ex-Girlfriend Club" – 4:18 "Dream the Sweetest Dreams" – 2:48 "Velvet Underground" – 3:21 "My Dark Places" – 3:00 "I'm Not Your Typical Boy" – 3:51 "You Kept Me Waiting Too Long" – 4:27 "They'll Have to Catch Us First" – 2:14 "She Can' Stop Traffic" – 3:43 "Tell Me About Your Day" – 3:00 "Then a Big Boy Came and Knocked It All Down" – 4:57 "I Hope You're Happy Now" – 2:31 "No More I Hate You's" – 2:47 "There's No Beautiful Way to Say Goodbye" – 3:47
Personnel Daniel Treacy - vocals Ed Ball - guitar Mathew Sawyer - drumsMeyer, Bill. "It Beats Prison". Chicago Reader, 20 April 2006. Retrieved 17 March 2026 Victoria Yeulet - vocals
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