Forget the four-piece, the regular singer-guitarist-bassist-drummer arrangement. The past few years have seen the rise of a less conventional layout for a band: the duo. Of course, we had The White Stripes, and we had The Black Keys, but the recent chart storming of bands like Deap Vally, Drenge and Royal Blood show that the love for the duo is stronger than ever. Now, fresh from great sets at Reading & Leeds, Dolomite Minor are hoping to be the new carriage in the duo success train.
Consisting of long haired singer/guitarist Joe Grimshaw and drummer Max Palmier, the Southampton rock band currently only have three songs on their soundcloud, but each one is a corker.
The first, Let Me Go, showcases straight away Grimshaw's sleazy vocals atop a thick bed of grinding guitar and a matching progressive drum beat, as he sings about nights on the town where "The night's still young but the police have been rung." It's a head-banging, foot stomping piece of grit.
Uploaded second was Girl of Gold, a live track which sounds, nevertheless, like a studio version (or maybe that's just the terrible sound quality on my crappy laptop). It's a fairly long one, and features a fantastic riff supported once again by strong drumming from Palmier.
The true excellence, however, doesn't come until most recent track Talk Like An Aztec (now available on Spotify and iTunes as well). Its gentle build up leads to a brilliantly articulated drop which I can imagine moshpits going mental for, but even so, it's more melodic than the previous tracks and will stick in your head for a while afterwards. As the band progress, this song will become a classic and without doubt a live favourite.
I caught their set at Leeds festival without knowing anything about them at all so I had no idea what to expect, but I was very pleasantly surprised. If truth be told, I'd heard the name before but for a reason unbeknownst to me I'd always thought Dolomite Minor was the name of a black, bespectacled, buttoned-up shirt wearing solo artist. You learn something new every day don't you?
Check out their tour dates here and the music video for Talk Like An Aztec here.
Written by Molly McGrath
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