Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Miles Island

LMR | Dom Winterbauer, Lunch Duchess, & Miles Island

Dom Winterbauer - Crash (self-released) Sometimes it feels like the Minneapolis scene consists of ten people playing in two dozen bands with different lineups. At least that's the feeling I get from Dom Winterbauer's second solo record. The Minneapolis polymath released two albums this year under their own name, in addition to playing bass in Miloe  and The Argument (who just released their own full-length). Both solo albums have stretched into Real Estate-esque dreaminess. Crash  condenses the Winterbauer's sonic styling into a more focused release (debut Blue Fish  was almost twice as long). Each moment luxuriates it its cloudy textures and looseness. Slowly is the fastest way to find direction. There's hardly any differentiation from song to song, creating a consistent river of wistful and hazy pop. With only a few exceptions, Winterbauer played every instrument, wrote every song, sings (almost) every vocal, and recorded/mastered the entire album.  Live ba...