{"id":35686,"date":"2018-05-07T11:54:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T10:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=35686"},"modified":"2018-05-07T11:54:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T10:54:15","slug":"tim-muddiman-the-stranges-second-album-domino-blitz-is-gloriously-grungy-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/05\/tim-muddiman-the-stranges-second-album-domino-blitz-is-gloriously-grungy-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Muddiman & The Strange’s Second Album ‘Domino Blitz’ Is Gloriously Grungy Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The new album from Tim Muddiman & The Strange, ‘Domino Blitz’ feels like it draws something from Bowie’s ‘Diamond Dogs’. There’s a distinctly dystopian vibe to the twelve track record, the follow up to Tim’s 2016 debut, ‘Paradise Runs Deeper’. It’s dark and deep, and moody, but it’s what you might expect from Muddiman if you’re familiar with his previous releases.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Opening with ‘Broken Down Superstar’, we find even more Bowie comparisons – it’s like Muddiman’s version of ‘Ziggy Stadust’, a song about a fallen star who fans now no longer hold aloft. Tim spits out the lyrics, mocking and vicious, while he’s backed up by hard rocking and bluesy guitars and drums. ‘Thrill’, the next track, would work well on a David Lynch soundtrack – eerie and again, that bluesy guitar and Muddiman’s drawling of the lyrics going together like pleasure and pain.<\/p>\n

Muddiman has been a long-time member of Gary Numan’s band, and it’d be a surprise if nothing from him rubbed off on his music. ‘Get It On’, track three, for which Tim has released a video, is possibly the most Numan-like of all the songs on the album, and feels like it could easily have been added as a bonus track to Numan’s latest release, ‘Savage’, a record about a post-apocalyptic world.<\/p>\n

Song four is the title track, ‘Domino Blitz’, a strong and strident treatise, is dark and conjures up images of people roaming about inner city London. Lyrics such as “Through a needle I saw much love to trust\/the hands of a ventriloquist” reflect a very mature and contemplative writing style, which draws the listener in with a curiosity to find out what happens next.<\/p>\n