Ears Wide Open: Diva Dompé

Kevin Bronson on August 10th, 2011

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The woozy, gravity-defying psychedelia of Diva Dompé sounds more like an artist searching for a place to land rather anybody who’s arrived, but her reverb-smothered sonic explorations do make for a long, strange trip over the course of her debut album “The Glitter End” (out earlier this month on Critical Heights). Now just doing business as Diva, the daughter of Bauhaus’ Kevin Haskins has been growing from project to project since the middle part of last decade, when as a teenager she played with her sister Lola in Black Black. She was a member of the interesting-for-a-heartbeat Pocahaunted (with Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino), and now she’s embracing visual art, modeling and old synths, not necessarily in that order. Her album came out in 2010 on cassette before Critical Heights picked it up. Disconnected or hallucinatory, depending on your inner lava lamp.

||| Stream: “Glow Worm” and “The Glitter End”