Dominique Leone has deliberately crammed so much trebly left-field sonic fiddle-faddling into his new album Abstract Expression that it often overshadows the rigorous 70’s AOR-indebted songwriting going on under, over, around, and through each track. It makes for an overwhelming and sometimes exhausting listen, but I’m pretty sure that’s part of the initial point. This isn’t an album that’s meant to be fully digested in one sitting, but one that clearly benefits from the hindsight and expectations that repeat close listening brings.
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