Dom Goodchild the Void Starer – Lloyd

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: VSR001
Barcode: 5024545955422
Release Date: 25 Feb 2022
Genre: Indie/Alternative

Leicester-based bedroom anarchist Dom Goodchild The Void Starer is an outsider poet of sorts, his songs are a misanthropic spoken word stream of consciousness, as grotesquely compelling as a Francis Bacon painting, with the poetic despair-rage of Charles Bukowski post three-day bender. His musical influences range from the post-punk of The Birthday Party and The Fall through to industrial and black metal bands such as Swans, Throbbing Gristle, Leviathan and Nachtmystium. His high octane monologues also recall the astute knife-edged social commentary of 70’s punk-poet John Cooper Clark, and more contemporarily Sleaford Mods - but with the danceable keyboard replaced by warped, menacing post-rock guitar that tugs at the darkest recesses of your soul. At times there’s a dark acerbic wit to Dom Goodchild The Void Starer’s self-described “wretched ballads” in which he deconstructs society and humanity in a brutally cutting and irreverent style. However, behind each of the eight songs found on Dom Goodchild The Void Starer’s debut album Lloyd lies a darker insight in the most desperate recesses of the human psych. The songs were written whilst Dom Goodchild was, in his own words, “climbing from rock bottom” following a suicide attempt. The songs represent a period in his life filled with a lot of personal suffering and emotions which he felt weren’t sufficiently dealt with by popular culture. As he expands “Life is terribly hard and horrific at times on an unspeakably deep level. I believe that a lot of people who face feelings of deep depression and anguish are not aliens, but all too human and this neurotic, consumer obsessed, vapid culture that tells you that you need to put up and shut up, just do x, y and z and you'll be happy. ”And so, his deconstruction of our all too often sycophantic, vacuous society was born. Dom Goodchild The Void Starer is the angry voice of the alienated, and his debut album Lloyd a brutal backlash against celebrity culture, beauty ideals, materialism, and superficial popular culture - and the masses who conform to it all blindly and live a superficial life. As he expands “People care too much about being hip, so close themselves off to the rich tapestry of art that delves deep into the crux of the human condition, and culture encourages conformity to this trendy crap.” Lloyd is dark, brutal, at times apocalyptic album, but for all its cynicism, distain, and misanthropy, it is also an awakening.

01/Lloyd's Void 02/I Am Uncooperative Radio 03/Rug Burn 04/In Bed With Humanity 05/Slithering Against My Will 06/You Let Him Hang Around 07/All Good Things Must End Or Get Corrupted 08/I Slit The Devil's Throat