Six tracks is all it takes for Dom Sensitive to serve a spread of sound, making an clear definition of the new music project.
If you’re someone who likes to comment, “they don’t make music like they used to”, you’re not looking hard enough. Even if you’re into obscure genres from 40 years ago, there’s something new out there that’ll both appease your lifelong palette, and catapult it into the modern world.
Cue, Dom Sensitive.
- Label: Dinosaur City
- Release: Out Now
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As the newest project from Port Adelaide based musician Dom Trimboli (Wireheads/Dom & The Wizards/Critical Energy), Dom Sensitive channels the best elements of 80’s proto-punk, neo-psychedelia and avant-pop, delivering an unconventional approach that somehow encompasses both jaded anger and innocent naivete all in one eccentric bubble.
Think Roxy Music in the KEXP era: sophisticated musicianship delivered with an effortless, hyper-stylised demeanour. As if Leather Trim is an improvised flow of Dom’s consciousness; each sound is unexpected, yet always works perfectly with the tone of the song, no matter how left of centre that may be.
‘Digital Random Hat’ pairs childish qualities and kaleidoscopic synths alongside Trimboli’s nonchalant drawl to resemble post-punk icons like Jonathan Richman or Mark E. Smith. ‘R&D’ toys with restrained riffs and slurred vocal cadences, gradually building tension as the track unfolds, while 11-minute epic ‘The Second Day of Spring’, invites listeners into a world of syncopated samples, patchwork production, and naturalistic foley, in-line with 70s inspired Café Exil psychedelia.
As an artist, Trimboli has never been one to be influenced by the norm, and Leather Trim gives him a chance to embrace that, bringing his distinctive weirdness to the forefront for his debut multi-instrumentalist release.
Leather Trim for Dom Sensitive is out now via Dinosaur City. Give it a listen here.
