DC Gore - All These Things

Wenn ein Album hinsichtlich der Musik (Melancholie trifft Tanzfläche) mit den frühen Pet Shop Boys verglichen wird und für die Text (dystopisch, sozialkritisch, spitz, witzig) Jarvis Cocker und Stephin Merritt als Parallelen herangezogen werden, dann ist diese Songsammlung definitiv für Platten vor Gericht geeignet.

„All These Things“ ist dieses Album. Es ist das erste Solo-Werk von Dominic Gore nach der Auflösung seiner Band Little Club, bietet 9 Songs, denen jederzeit anzuhören ist, dass er in seiner Kindheit „Discography“ von Tennant und Lowe rauf und runter gehört hat, und ist über Domino Records als CD und LP (black Vinyl, curacao blue Viynl) erschienen.

 

This is a good album to drive to, the track listing feels well thought out and you don’t find yourself impulsively reaching for the skip button. The songs are on the lengthy side but they are structured in a way that doesn’t make them feel boring or overstretched. All These Things is one of those records where you’re fifteen minutes deep and unsure if it's the first song you’ve been listening to the entire time, it's a good thing. The album feels like its nine mini sonic journeys umbrella’d under an even bigger adventure. The juxtaposition of the crafty lyrics and the dancey beats surprisingly compliment each other. DC Gore’s lyrical storytelling is similar to that of Alex Cameron, it’s effortless but is clearly deliberate and well articulated. All These Things appeals to fans of Soft Hair, Pet Shop Boys, Kirin J Callinan and Eurovision. 

(Still Listening Magazine)

 

Gore’s blend of warm, at times euphoric synthpop and live instrumentation owes much to Pet Shop Boys (the melody of the title track on his debut album echoes that of Rent), a touchstone for him since he heard Discography as a child. His upbringing in an unspecified M25 dormitory town, meanwhile, has led to a fascination with suburbia (particularly “all the sort of weird shit that happens there with people just living to procreate”, he has said). This has informed his lyrics and earned Gore comparisons to Jarvis Cocker. Elsewhere, as on I Like You, he can be as archly funny as Stephin Merritt. He might have come late to songwriting, but he’s making up for that now.

(The Guardian)