Dommengang — No Keys (May 17, 2019) 
• A few short weeks ahead of the release of their new album No Keys, Dommengang have announced a tour throughout the U.S. east coast with Dead Meadow in June. Dommengang’s No Keys (out May 17th) channels the wailing, psych~rock abandon of their previous work into a lean, dark~edged record, colored by shared personal loss. Recorded with guitarist and engineer Tim Green (Joanna Newsom, Howlin’ Rain, Sleepy Sun, Fresh and Onlys, Golden Void), the album capture’s the trio’s spontaneous energy and restless spirit.
• Dommengang’s spiritual home of LA makes its mark on No Keys. The songs are fit for the late~night drive into the California desert, a real and metaphorical escape for a rootless band always searching for a balance between the city and the rougher expanses of nature. It speaks to the explorer, and to the abandon of those willing to go all in. It is for the rocker giving it all, living out of a van, without a key to a permanent home.
• For Dommengang’s third album for Thrill Jockey, it sounds as though they threw all their stuff into the back of the car and blew their LA home in favour of a wild ride into the desert, forsaking the concrete gleam for some dusty widescreen excesses. The scree of feedback that opens the album is a welcome reminder of their rock roots, but also that they are looking to push beyond
Location: Los Angeles, California
Genre: Road Trip. Head Trip.
Style: Psychedelic Rock
Album release: May 17, 2019
Record Label: Thrill Jockey
Duration: 40:18
Tracks:
1. Sunny Day Flooding 3:48
2. Earth Blues 5:28
3. Wild Wash 4:18
4. Stir The Sea 5:03
5. Blues Rot 1:42
6. Kudzu 4:10
7. Arcularius — Burke 6:32
8. Jerusalem Cricket 3:44
9. Happy Death (Her Blues II) 5:33
Credits:
• Brian Markham: Bass, Vocals
• Adam Bulgasem: Drums, Percussion, Design, Layout
• Sig Wilson: Guitar, Vocals
• Adam Parks: Keyboards (tracks: A2, B3, B4)
• Amanda Smith: Photography
• Tim Green: Producer, Engineer, Guitar [Additional on A5]
• Camilla Saufley~Mitchell: Vocals (tracks: B3)
Notes:
⊆• LP pressed on virgin vinyl and packaged in a gatefold jacket with black inner sleeves and free download card.
Limited amount pressed on Sunset Orange color vinyl.
• On No Keys, Dommengang channel the wailing, psych~rock abandon of their previous work into a lean, dark~edged record colored by loss, change, and the sheer force of growing musicianship. Guitarist Dan “Sig” Wilson, bassist Brian Markham, and drummer Adam Bulgasem have grown closer even as they live and travel ever~further apart, and No Keys captures the raw energy of their moments together, with wailing, improvised blues~rock as unrelenting as it can be tender.
• No Keys reflects the sprawl of Dommengang’s spiritual home of Los Angeles; this is music for the late~night drive into the California desert, a real and metaphorical escape for a rootless band always searching for a balance between the city and the rougher expanses of nature.
• That restless spirit lives in No Keys’ hazy, fuzzed~out guitar and the pure catharsis of Dommengang’s highest riffs, which approach the warm, double~voiced textures of the Grateful Dead or Canned Heat while touching a nerve all their own.
• No Keys was recorded with guitarist and engineer Tim Green (Joanna Newsom, Howlin’ Rain, Sleepy Sun, Fresh and Onlys, Golden Void ) — now a close collaborator, if not family, of the band. Dommengang records live with minimal overdubs, and their spontaneous force, rooted in the joy of playing together, is undeniable on every track, from muscular riffs to scorched~earth dirges to sweeping ballads.
• The liveness is tempered by only a few effects and additional instrumentation, introduced in the mixing stages: the skittering reverb and echoes that lend Sig’s guitar solos their trademark stratospheric quality, the rippling distortion adding depth and weight to Markham and Bulgasem’s hypnotic groove, a touch of lap steel and Hohner organ. Guest vocals from Camilla Saufly~Mitchell (Golden Void) on “Jerusalem Cricket” temper Markham’s cries of “No keys,” and Adam Parks’ (Timber Rattle) buzzing organ rounds out album closer “Happy Death (Her Blues II)”.
• No Keys is rock’s primeval power incarnate — alive and well, even if it’s sometimes living out of its van, without a key to a permanent home.
Bandcamp: https://dommengang.bandcamp.com/album/no-keys
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dommengang
Label: http://www.thrilljockey.com/
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• Dommengang’s spiritual home of LA makes its mark on No Keys. The songs are fit for the late~night drive into the California desert, a real and metaphorical escape for a rootless band always searching for a balance between the city and the rougher expanses of nature. It speaks to the explorer, and to the abandon of those willing to go all in. It is for the rocker giving it all, living out of a van, without a key to a permanent home.
• For Dommengang’s third album for Thrill Jockey, it sounds as though they threw all their stuff into the back of the car and blew their LA home in favour of a wild ride into the desert, forsaking the concrete gleam for some dusty widescreen excesses. The scree of feedback that opens the album is a welcome reminder of their rock roots, but also that they are looking to push beyond
Location: Los Angeles, California
Genre: Road Trip. Head Trip.
Style: Psychedelic Rock
Album release: May 17, 2019
Record Label: Thrill Jockey
Duration: 40:18
Tracks:
1. Sunny Day Flooding 3:48
2. Earth Blues 5:28
3. Wild Wash 4:18
4. Stir The Sea 5:03
5. Blues Rot 1:42
6. Kudzu 4:10
7. Arcularius — Burke 6:32
8. Jerusalem Cricket 3:44
9. Happy Death (Her Blues II) 5:33
Credits:
• Brian Markham: Bass, Vocals
• Adam Bulgasem: Drums, Percussion, Design, Layout
• Sig Wilson: Guitar, Vocals
• Adam Parks: Keyboards (tracks: A2, B3, B4)
• Amanda Smith: Photography
• Tim Green: Producer, Engineer, Guitar [Additional on A5]
• Camilla Saufley~Mitchell: Vocals (tracks: B3)
Notes:
⊆• LP pressed on virgin vinyl and packaged in a gatefold jacket with black inner sleeves and free download card.
Limited amount pressed on Sunset Orange color vinyl.
• On No Keys, Dommengang channel the wailing, psych~rock abandon of their previous work into a lean, dark~edged record colored by loss, change, and the sheer force of growing musicianship. Guitarist Dan “Sig” Wilson, bassist Brian Markham, and drummer Adam Bulgasem have grown closer even as they live and travel ever~further apart, and No Keys captures the raw energy of their moments together, with wailing, improvised blues~rock as unrelenting as it can be tender.
• No Keys reflects the sprawl of Dommengang’s spiritual home of Los Angeles; this is music for the late~night drive into the California desert, a real and metaphorical escape for a rootless band always searching for a balance between the city and the rougher expanses of nature.
• That restless spirit lives in No Keys’ hazy, fuzzed~out guitar and the pure catharsis of Dommengang’s highest riffs, which approach the warm, double~voiced textures of the Grateful Dead or Canned Heat while touching a nerve all their own.
• No Keys was recorded with guitarist and engineer Tim Green (Joanna Newsom, Howlin’ Rain, Sleepy Sun, Fresh and Onlys, Golden Void ) — now a close collaborator, if not family, of the band. Dommengang records live with minimal overdubs, and their spontaneous force, rooted in the joy of playing together, is undeniable on every track, from muscular riffs to scorched~earth dirges to sweeping ballads.
• The liveness is tempered by only a few effects and additional instrumentation, introduced in the mixing stages: the skittering reverb and echoes that lend Sig’s guitar solos their trademark stratospheric quality, the rippling distortion adding depth and weight to Markham and Bulgasem’s hypnotic groove, a touch of lap steel and Hohner organ. Guest vocals from Camilla Saufly~Mitchell (Golden Void) on “Jerusalem Cricket” temper Markham’s cries of “No keys,” and Adam Parks’ (Timber Rattle) buzzing organ rounds out album closer “Happy Death (Her Blues II)”.
• No Keys is rock’s primeval power incarnate — alive and well, even if it’s sometimes living out of its van, without a key to a permanent home.
Bandcamp: https://dommengang.bandcamp.com/album/no-keys
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dommengang
Label: http://www.thrilljockey.com/
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