An intriguing success with interweaving post-punk and chamber-pop touches, “Dakota” is a recent single from Kaminski, the project of Dutch singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Derek Kuipers. The track’s beginnings waste no time in showing a darkly engrossing allure. Anxious guitar pulses are taken over by a prominent twinkling lead, bolstered suddenly by an entrancing post-punk rhythmic backing.
The weary vocals consume with patient effect, escalating beautifully into a striking chorus with distorted guitar enveloping. Strings and murky guitar developments excel through the mid-point, an atmospheric showcase of Kaminski’s production and more experimental structural pursuits, which are achieved fully here, and throughout Kaminski’s new album, My Diary Lied, streaming below:
Per the artist, “Dakota” “describes how a brave girl from his childhood crashed in the process of breaking free from a religious cult, while he himself was standing by and not daring to do so.”
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Best of November 2022’ Spotify playlist.
