Dominique Leone - Winter EP

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  • Grabbing the listener by the lapel works best for the short, sharp and shocking. Though there's nothing retiring about Dominique Leone's Winter EP, like his other work it feels more like a trustworthy tug of the sleeve. You follow it easily to the end, as one continuous thing—even the remixes, which seem integral to the release as a whole rather than simply a couple add-ons. Structurally (though not instrumentally, tonally or vocally) "Don't Miss" is comparable to Matthew Dear's "Dog Days." It features a Bowie-ish up-and-down vocal line that seems to have been conceived as part of its surrounding arrangement: Leone sings at higher pitch over hard-jacking drums and aggressively fingered keyboard-bass lines. The ten-minute "It's All Over Now Except for One Last Bit" makes good on its title—a daring art-rock-gone-disco quasi-epic that really works. There's a chorus chant that sounds like something Yes would have done around 90125, a ticking-clock section a la Pink Floyd's "Time," and the unabashedly epic-suite feel of early Sven Väth, minus the slop. Marklion's rework of "Don't Miss" trades out the new wave-gone-'10s-disco feel of the original for something a little evener and more ominous, which doesn't always work—the minute-long beat-less section (from 2:00 to 3:00—talk about not hiding it) is awkward, with processed background nattering getting in the way. But it's suitably moody-sounding, and Marklion's big feel suits it. Max Tundra takes over "It's All Over Now Except for One Last Bit" and reduces it to eight minutes of gradual synth build over clicky percussion, with wormy organ, light-fingered piano and Rhodes strings (or thereabouts) threading till Tundra, somewhat arbitrarily, presses stop.
  • Tracklist
      01. Don't Miss 02. It's All Over Except One Last Bit 03. Don't Miss (Marklion remix) 04. It's All Over Except One Last Bit (Max Tundra remix)
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