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by Bradley Johnson, posted by blog admin
Kenosha,
Wisconsin’s Donoma are one of the most unusual bands I’ve encountered in quite
a long time. It is impossible to predict
what type of ear damage they will employ on any individual track across their
sophomore album, Falling Forward’s 12
unnerving tracks. They’ve got the hearty
guitar riffs and beefed up bass/drum interplay of a good rock/blues combo, the
twitchiness of NYC noise-rock, a strange penchant for weird lab creations
involving several genres and some country soul.
I’ve heard other bands trying to cook up a similar dish of vittles but
they usually ruin the entire meal.
Donoma, somehow, makes it work.
If
you’re only judging how the album begins and how it ends, you’ve still got two
entirely different bands. “Sick” is a
rampart-storming, rock n’ roll affair with powder keg bass grooves blowing
apart rollicking tom beats as the guitars whip through a hard
rock/country/blues strut on high octane.
Singer Stephanie Vogt holds nothing back in the vocal department in
terms of the lyrics or her ballsy presentation of the material. Closer “Come with Me” is a minimal folk dirge
that’s beautifully off-putting (calling to mind a more tuneful Earth). These descriptions only cover the bookends of
this record and what’s sandwiched in between is even more exciting. The scream along Armageddon of white-washed
math rockers “Jack in the Box,” “Splinter” and even “Deep Beneath the Woods’”
noisy, digitally manipulated pulsations are the kind of work that would have
put this band on a bill with the Cherubs, Boredoms or Painteens. While “Memory,” “A Change is Gonna Come
originally recorded by Sam Cooke,” “Another Light,” “Unfortunate One” and
“Otherside” could have set these cats to warm up for Dax Riggs and Sturgill
Simpson. Hell, they’d scare the pants
off of Lana del Rey courtesy of the evil jazz/singer-songwriter fluxing of “He
Loves Me Not.” This is truly no-holds
barred music that gets up in your face and throws you against the wall;
harassing you to beg for release from their musical chokehold.
Donoma
won’t be for everyone but Falling Forward
is worth more than a passing glance in the crowded music world today. The album doesn’t always fit each unique
piece of the puzzle together but as a collection of songs it really gets under
the skin. Despite all of the mayhem,
several of the songs are catchy enough to even find their way into some sort of
Internet radio airplay, thanks to adventurous minded DJs who let their podcasts
run wild.
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