The Domestics Release New Album in Partnership with Southern Poverty Law Center

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"After a split with our former record label just nine days before the scheduled release of our new album, we were left in the rare circumstance of having complete ownership of the rights to our record and the unique opportunity to do with it whatever we saw fit," say the Portland, OR-based band via an official statement on www.the-domestics.com. "We are very excited to release Little Darkness today and announce our partnership with The Southern Poverty Law Center, who will receive 50% of the album's revenue. With complete ownership of our album, we have the freedom to redirect the revenue that would have gone to our label into the hands of an organization dedicated to the ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity. It feels so great to finally put these songs out into the world, and we couldn't ask for a better organization to call our partner."

The Southern Poverty Law Center also issued the following: "We're grateful to the Domestics for their commitment to justice and equality and to finding creative and generous ways to support those ideals. It's especially important that the Domestics are mobilizing their communities in a way that creates strength and solidarity in numbers behind the causes they believe in. This summer, we updated and published our '10 Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide' which sets out 10 principles for taking action. We look forward to sharing all of our free anti-bias resources with the Domestics and their fans."

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LITTLE DARKNESS was born at Flora Recording & Playback, the renowned Portland facility where Michael Finn works alongside studio owner/producer Tucker Martine. Having assisted and engineered more than 35 albums with Martine - including works by The Decemberists, My Morning Jacket, and Neko Case - this time Finn found himself on the other side of the glass with songwriter and bandmate Leo London tirelessly pushing their band in ambitious new directions. The Domestics spent a solid month at Flora building and developing LITTLE DARKNESS; 16-hour days, seven days a week, in which the duo took full advantage of the studio's limitless possibilities in pursuit of something truly unique and powerful. Indeed, songs like "Love That Dress" and "Going Down The Wrong Way" add remarkable new shades to The Domestics' frank and inventive musical approach. The two tunesmiths set the intimate songs amidst immersive and exhilarating arrangements, amplifying their personal potency. Traditional instrumentation was wed throughout the process with wide ranging sonic ambition; found sounds, creative tape loops, and waves of harmonic distortion. The result is both idiosyncratic and indelible, rich with ingenious originality, broken-hearted lyricism, and riveting creative passion.

The Domestics and their self-titled debut album arrived in 2015 and earned instant applause from a range of high profile media outlets. SPIN named the band one of "Five Artists To Watch," praising THE DOMESTICS' "gritty guitars, lo-fi drums, and breezy unison melodies," declaring the eponymous album to be "a heart-on-its sleeve affair, loaded with wistful tunes steeped in the tradition of the great American rock song." "The Domestics are not entering the indie scene quietly," noted Paste. "Rather, (they are) starting out with a strong, loud and joyful sound." "Demurely charming," raved The Nerdist. "You can easily glean the authenticity of the group's emotional earnestness."

Hailed for their eclectic and energetic live shows, The Domestics will celebrate LITTLE DARKNESS with a winter west coast tour, set to get underway December 2nd at Los Angeles' Bootleg Theater. For details and ticket information, please visit www.the-domestics.com/tour.