I’m sitting here in the back room of my Craigbank Ranch in
the Kingdom of Fife. It’s 6.17am, I have
a powerfully strong black coffee and I’m listening to Domiciles; a relatively
new and young band that hail from the same region as I.
100 Miles is the first You Tube search
to grace my ears and it’s a legitimate peach of a song. The opening keys and simple drum pattern set
the tone and are soon followed by the catchy 60’s guitar riffs that echo the
warm melodic harmonies of Nick (Young) and Rory (Cowieson).
I truly love everything this song has to offer
me. The verse, bridge, chorus; back to
the opening riff and then repeat sequence is testament these fellows understand
where the song wants them to take it. It’s
the outro, which is denoted in the video as “And now…intermission”, that really
seals this effort though…it’s not too far off a modern, upbeat psych twist on
Procal Harum’s A Whiter Shade of Pale;
well, sort of ; )
100 Miles is four hundred shorter than The Proclaimers journey; is this how one
should judge a song though?
Categorically not. If anything, I’ve
travelled to far greater places in my mind this morning than any number of BAH
RAH DAH’s could ever take me; of course, that’s no slight on the aforementioned
Edinburgh based duo; this is just the psychedelic reality of the world we
choose to live in today.
In summary, read, listen, download from the
Domiciles BandCamp and then listen many times more; it’s what Charlie and Craig
Reid would want.
Tomas Bird
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