This is Diners’ 7th full length album, Diners four singles made their way into some of our best listened too songs at various points this summer “The Power” I heard “Domino” album title track way back in April and that guitar solo came wailing in for the first time, my interest was immediately.
On “Domino,” her energetic new album, she’s taken a turn toward overdriven, uptempo power pop, applying her affirming lyricism to an unabashed rock record. With production help from Portland songwriter Mo Troper, “Domino” places her breezy melodies alongside stomping Big Star guitars and hazy fuzz bass, lending a new urgency to her anthems. “This is the rock record that I always wanted to make,” Broderick says. “I know that any time I turn it on, it’s what I set out to do.”
Because the truth is, the hype for “Domino” is as real as any excitement around a record could ever be. Across 10 songs, Diners spearheaded by songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Blue Broderick—have turned 25 minutes into an entire universe.
“Domino” is the perfect example of the many ways that a three-minute song can truly sing. The album is all killer, no filler for real. There’s something about precise and sharp hooks that are epic in their own right, but Blue’s work here is especially hypnotic and cathartic in that regard.
“Domino” is bubblegum mastery glossed with retro incantations that fit nicely in a modern, un-retro world; a wondrous excursion into the limitlessness of epic hooks and saccharine storytelling,
Produced by patchwork pop provocateur and distortion spin doctor Mo Troper. “Domino” is the rock record that Blue has always wanted to make. Though she asserts that, in the past, he didn’t have the skills to write and arrange songs like “The Power” or “So What,” that doesn’t erase the fact that she’s a brilliant guitar wizard who had all of those parts baked and ready to go by the time Troper got involved.
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