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Bonedome
2+ albums
alternativeindie rockdallastexasdallas locals
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Call it layered, indie prog-rock if you must. Or David Bowie channeling a Texan with anger issues. Try Love & Rockets covering the most vicious songs Elvis Costello ever wrote, or Bob Mould leading a more restrained and catchier ELO? Pinning it down is gonna be harder than you thought. Thinktankubator is the product of a musical omnivore, a multi-instrumentalist with a symphonic approach, and a lyricist whose playful way with words seems constantly at war with his massive grudge against the world. Dark, indeed often chilling, it’s an album that rewards each further listening, as layers of guitars reveal hidden melodies and a previously unnoticed line reveals itself to be a subtly clever bit of vindictiveness. And Bonedome singer/writer/producer Allan Hayslip didn’t purchase the experiences behind the layers cheaply. No, those layers are the product of couple of decades at the sides of some of Dallas’ finest musical craftspeople, folded together with decade from another life as a schoolboy chorister and orchestral violinist, and for years generously glazed with dreams, folly and heartbreaks generously given and got. Cooked up in a place like Dallas, this all seems like a cliché recipe for another tortured country/western epic, but in Allan’s meaty hands the music is worked into a forward-looking rock monument that pays equal tribute to his past, predecessors and peers. Allan’s friends and peers, fellow coveted sidemen from all stripes of Dallas music, have stepped up to add
