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Today’s Screamer of the Day features the band The Dining Rooms. The two tracks selected are from their third album “Tre”. Fightin’ 4 Rebirth has an amazing hook that will just break your heart and had me hitting the replay button in my truck all the way to work, while the glorious female vox on Dreamy Smiles earns Anna Clementi a fixed spot in The Women of Jukebox Heart.
The Dining Rooms’ music is a thick amalgam of elements from Portishead to Tindersticks to obscure 70’s Italian film soundtracks all kissed by the virtual lips of Ennio Morricone. It’s all-night drizzly driving music leading to a 4AM breakfast in Brooklyn at Vegas and slow and sleepy pre-dawn sex.
So how did I miss this? This CD is one from the haul I described in the last Screamer, and the moment I popped it in and “Tunnels” began its tinky piano intro, I knew I was on to something. So I did some research, and the band has been releasing music for eight years under this name. Each new song that came on, I asked myself again, How Did I Miss This? This falls squarely into one of my favorite genres, downtempo left-field ambient kind of stuff. Click the linls below to hear each of the tracks.
Fightin’ 4 Rebirth | Dreamy Smiles
