Dom Quincey has shared his latest track, ‘Anything At All’, another peek through the keyhole at his anticipated upcoming EP.
After an initial burst of energy, the track takes it slow. The soft rise and fall of strings sway. Electronic drums punch to the forefront and disappear. The guitars are a bed of arpeggios and light strums.
The first sense of true momentousness arrives in the chorus, Dom’s voice truly stepping centre stage as the rest of the arrangement aligns around a more cohesive emotional melody and rhythm. The indie-pop dreamland is laced with a grungey underbelly, releasing the grief and disillusionment into a cathartic anthem.
Dom shares a comment, “The song started as I was playing around with a guitar tuning used on Joni Mitchell’s ‘Hejira’. I loved how open and unresolved it felt. I wrote the first verse and took it to my friend Coby, who helped me restructure the chords. We made a draft of a song, but it didn’t feel reflective of where I was at the time, so I sat with it and wrote the rest of it a few months later. I took it to Evil Genius, who produced the song with me and helped to refine its contrasting textures. ‘Anything at All’ is a song about feeling lost and disillusioned through turbulent times.”
As the release looms, Dom Quincey has created an energy that garners wide-ranging support. The yearning performances have become his trademark, as themes of longing, introspection and existential questioning run through his music.