Since I spend so much time here complaining about how everything sucks, I feel like it's only fair to let you know about the two or three times a month I manage to experience a slight facial quiver in the corners of my food hole region that most people might generally mistake for a smile. This record from Worcester, MA's Dom -- Big up Wormtown, kehd. That's where I went to college, by the way -- is pushing the pleasure center of my brain usually reserved for schadenfreude and scheming against my enemies (all of you people.)
This track Living In America is the jam spot in particular, but don't miss out on Bochicha either. As I say in my review in the Globe today (full review below the jump) "The record is an alternate universe timeline in which a teenage Kurt Cobain — whom band frontman Dom resembles in his neon dishevelment — had grown up on a steady diet of party rap and new wave, sometimes literally, as on the band’s recent remix collaboration with rapper Gucci Mane.'
Massachusetts has had a pretty good run setting the indie agenda lately. We are only now feeling the full effect of the Passion Pit factor, as a wave of full-on sound-alikes crawl out from under their kaleidoscope shadow. Next up is Worcester’s Dom, likely to be our biggest musical export this year. With its high-pitched male vocals, janky Casio riffs, and grimy bass buzz, “Living in America’’ might trick you into lumping the burgeoning band in with that lot. That would be a mistake. The seven songs on this EP, now being re-released onto the bigger stage through Astralwerks, are the epitome of the predominant contemporary mercurialism, where lo-fi electronic retro-futurism meets psyched-out garage. Some songs even clash with themselves — “Bochicha’’ sounds like it was recorded in a dingy apartment just steps away from a gorgeous, roaring surf. The record is an alternate universe timeline in which a teenage Kurt Cobain — whom band frontman Dom resembles in his neon dishevelment — had grown up on a steady diet of party rap and new wave, sometimes literally, as on the band’s recent remix collaboration with rapper Gucci Mane. Cannot wait to hear what the rip-offs three years from now sound like.
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sounds gheyish kinda like the naked & famous
The Naked and the Famous are exactly who I was talking about here:
"We are only now feeling the full effect of the Passion Pit factor, as a wave of full-on sound-alikes crawl out from under their kaleidoscope shadow."
I usually don't care when bands sound like other bands, but HOOOOOO BOY.
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