| Member Since | 6/29/2004 | | Band Website | http://www.dominiqueleone.com | | Band Members | Dominique Leone | | Influences | Beach Boys, Boredoms, XTC, Beatles, Ruins, This Heat, ABBA, Miles Davis, Magma, Area, Bob Drake, Can, Faust, Tom Ze, Cardiacs, Art Bears, Randy Newman, Stereolab, Led Zeppelin, Otomo Yoshihide, Free Design, The Band, Squarepusher, Fleetwood Mac, Judee Sill, Queen, Koenjihyakkei, Eskaton, Varttina, Alejandra & Aeron, Mileece, Albert Marcoeur, Maurice Fulton, Meredith Monk, Wendy Carlos, Joyce, Funkadelic, Eva Quartet, John Zorn, Meshuggah, Gabriel Ananda, Ricardo Villalobos, Pom Pom, Igor Stravinsky, Annette Peacock, Emmylou Harris, Stevie Wonder, 'Poltergeist', George Gershwin, 'Spirited Away', Deerhoof, Tony Williams, John Coltrane, Nellie McKay, Orthrelm, Zach Hill, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Melt Banana, R.Stevie Moore, LCD Soundsystem, Moondog, Kevin Blechdom, 'Children of Men', Dmitri Shostakovich, Olivier Messiaen, Robert Schumann, Glenn Gould, JS Bach, Bela Bartok, Danny Elfman, Gerard Grisey, Fania All-Stars, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, West Side Story, Harry Nilsson, Bjork, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Larry David, Frank Stella, Julie Mehretu, Sol Lewitt | | Sounds Like | Praise for Dominique Leone:
“This champion of experimental noise and classic pop unites both on a debut album that bypasses the Norwegian space disco of label co-owner Hans-Peter Lindstrom.” 4-stars
-- SPIN
“What Battles has done for math rock, Leone is doing for prog-pop: giving it a kitsch-free futuristic thrust that sets the standard for 21st-century practitioners of the genre.” 9/10, Staff Pick
-- XLR8R
“This is a striking, accomplished debut that hints at whole new realms of possibility.” 4-stars
-- All-Music Guide
“Leone takes musical hairpin turns with such mischievous glee that you can visualize the Road Runner blithely zipping across jagged mountain highways as Wile E. Coyote tumbles off cliff after cliff.”
-- The Village Voice
“Dominique Leone is impressively organic, with detailed compositions that neither hide artifice nor flaunt it. Leone seems to have eyes in the back of his head, watching pop history while pushing it forward.”
-- Pitchfork
“Dominique Leone is one of the best releases of the year, combining a producerly sense of dynamics and range that's equally dub-, classical-, and disco-influenced, with choruses and melodies that seize your attention and never really let go.”
-- Dusted Magazine
“The endless array of sounds and evocations just zooming in or forming static is enough to make Of Montreal's similarly mercurial Kevin Barnes hang up his garters for good.”
-- CMJ
"Leone's other recordings prove he's a duke of stratospheric melody, noise, and operatic vox, as antic from his ideas as Cornelius was during the Fantasma era. Hail a 21st-century boy — a 21st-century Beach Boy"
-- San Francisco Bay Guardian
Wikipedia | | Record Label | Stromland, Feedelity, Important | | Type of Label | Indie |
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