Dommin - Love Is Gone
There’s a pervading aura of melancholy here that lingers at the back of your mouth like the smell of that curry you scoffed last night.
‘Love Is Gone’ sounds like an album title for a sour, romance-twisted bunch of emo whippersnappers, but rest assured, this is just a gaggle of gothed-up black-clad rockers instead. ‘This is the sound of the brokenhearted’ says singer Kristofer Dommin via this album’s press release, and I don’t think he’s lying. There’s a pervading aura of melancholy here that lingers at the back of your mouth like the smell of that curry you scoffed last night.
Album opener ‘My Heart, Your Hands’ is a bit of a cheesy, synth-monster of an introduction but acts as a solid barometer for the next fourteen tracks. ‘New’ follows, with a punchy, morbid fairy-tale esque sound and crooning vocals, but the singing indeed is a bit Marmite in its lung-pumping nature, hinting towards misty-eyed times gone by. You don’t quite get pipes like this anymore, and in the title track you begin to realise perhaps why – it sounds a little dated, hard rock balladry that feels like a lost soul in the musical spectrum of the noughties.
It is indeed the more oddball song choices here in which this album stands out; ‘Dark Holiday’ is a pretty stupendous barroom jaunt, doused in noir, and concludes with some Banjo Kazooie-esque arpeggios, whilst ‘Honestly’ revels in 80s synth pop and lucid vocal chops. The album’s grand finale is ‘Remember’, an epic bellow-fest which unfortunately belies the quirky nature of the more stellar tracks and resorts to the cheddary, pomp-type. Judging by ‘Love Is Gone’, the sound of the brokenhearted both hits and misses, and is a little frustrating in nature. World Dommin-ation is some way off yet.
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