Abstract Expression is the second album from San Francisco-based avant-pop producer Dominique Leone, and his first for vanguard American experimental music label Important Records. Leone, a classically trained artist and composer originally from Texas, is one of a growing number of college-educated musical auteurs writing songs for joyous, infatuated (or over saturated) people. All of his music could be considered 'pop' of a sort, though with dashes of prog, classical music, electronica, and even ois   [ read more ]

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Abstract Expression is the second album from San Francisco-based avant-pop producer Dominique Leone, and his first for vanguard American experimental music label Important Records. Leone, a classically trained artist and composer originally from Texas, is one of a growing number of college-educated musical auteurs writing songs for joyous, infatuated (or over saturated) people. All of his music could be considered "pop" of a sort, though with dashes of prog, classical music, electronica, and even ois   [ read more ]

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Dominique Leone wears many hats, only a few faces and has a hundred songs that you haven't heard. And yes, he's a him. He's a songwriter, producer, singer, lover, fighter - scratch that, he's one of a growing number of college-educated musical auteurs with more than a slight command of pop history and theory chops, and writing songs for joyous, infatuated people. Perhaps some of them are a bit over stimulated. Perhaps some of them just like good melodies and strange chord progressions that still seem vaguel   [ read more ]

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Considering the litany of literate talking-point touchstones that filter their way through the twisted pop phantasmagoria of Dominique Leone's self-titled debut, the inaugural release on Hans-Peter Lindstr°m's Str°mland imprint -- for starters, the big-league melodicism (and restlessly conceptual thrust) of Brian Wilson, Todd Rundgren, and XTC; the whimsical arcanity of the Canterbury scene; the brutalist cacophonics of Boredoms; and over a decade's worth of post-IDM exploration and ele   [ read more ]

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