Home & Garden
"Domesticated" CD
Om Records
Genre: house, club, chill-out
Chicago / New York City
Jan 27, 2009 |
Home & Garden's Tim Kvasnosky and Timothy Shumaker
have long been involved as dance producers,
designing of some of our generation's most
ubiquitous Billboard club hits.
However, Domesticated marks their
first attempt at creating a full-length album on
their own. The result is a smooth and
heavily melodic selection of house tracks and chill-out cuts,
well ornamented with the contributions of several veteran guest
vocalists. Although guilty of several obvious filler songs
(“Endless Pieces,” “Wanna Walk Away,” “Braille”), Home & Garden
have pulled off a respectable number of potential singles here. They
aren't rewriting any books, and you may be tempted to call this
by-the-numbers club music, but the majority of this record is
characterized by excellent production and well-designed
compositions. The two strongest singles are undoubtedly
“Domesticated” and “Sunday Morning.” The former, featuring vocals from
Derrick Carter, is a funky pop anthem with a chorus that's
instantly internalized; meanwhile, “Sunday Morning” is an obscenely
infectious feel-good track that succeeds on virtually all levels. Also
sublime are slick disco-house single “Easy Going Down” and delightful
“Body & Soul.”
As “Easy Going Down” suggests,
Domesticated is a great club record that is easy to digest.
Although unlikely to change the face of dance music
as we know it, this is still an
excellent selection of house and chill-out music that will please
dancefloor addicts and headphone jockeys
alike.
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Matt Shimmer
[Vitals: 11 tracks, distributed by
the
label,
released September 2008] |
