Domino | ||||
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Released | August 18, 2023 | |||
Studio | Trash Treasury, Portland, Oregon, United States | |||
Genre | Power pop [1] | |||
Length | 24:54 | |||
Label | Bar/None | |||
Producer | Mo Troper | |||
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"That's such delicate territory, somewhere between a thematically disconnected 'collection of songs' and a three-hour concept album by The Decemberists about Alger Hiss, or whatever. Domino is one of those rare pop records that actually achieves this, where every song is its own self-contained thing that is also in service to the album."
—Producer Mo Troper on balancing contradictory musical instincts for Domino [2]
Domino is the seventh studio album by American power pop act Diners, released through Bar/None Records on August 18, 2023.
Editors at AllMusic rated this album 4 out of 5 stars, with critic Marcy Donelson writing this album displays a "knack for endearing melodies, Beatlesque complex harmonies..., lo-fi charm, and an affable bittersweetness". [3] Writing for Paste, Matt Mitchell favorably reviewed single "The Power", comparing it to Big Star and Raspberries. [4] The same publication chose it as the 33rd best song of the year in a mid-2023 list, with Mitchell calling it "a glorious, sun-soaked slice of power pop that lives up to its title". [5] Finally, when the album was released, the publication devoted a feature to reviewing it and interviewing Diners' Blue Broderick and Mitchell again wrote the piece, calling Domino "an entire universe", "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", and "all killer, no filler for real". [2] Brad Shoup of Pitchfork rated this release 7.3 out of 10, calling it "the most immediate rock Diners has ever attempted". [1]
Paste included this among the 30 best rock albums of 2023. [6]
All songs written by Blue Broderick.