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When modern rock band Donoma decided to head back in to the studio to record their third full length album, they decided it wasn’t enough to match the success of 2017’s “Falling Forward”. That would be fine for many bands as that record gained them airplay on more than 120 terrestrial radio stations and helped them secure direct concert support for the likes of Soul Asylum, Meat Puppets, Candlebox, Tantric, and Rusted Root along the with many to-billing shows. For this album the band put three simple rules in place. To lyrically examine the world around them, to keep production to a minimum and finally, to make a cohesive album that re-imagined rock and roll’s glory days.
On ‘American Rust’, Donoma burst through expectations. With eight songs blazing through at thirty-four minutes, listeners are taken on a journey through today’s America with all of its hopes and dreams and flaws. The album opens with “Rustbelt Tragedy”, a no holds barred tribute to the American worker, and ends with “Road Song”, which tells the story of one man’s realization that he must fight for what he believes in. Between those staggering bookends, Donoma tackles millennial angst with the punky “Nobody Wants Us”, race relations on “Hands Are Up”, the young dreamer coming to America on the lilting “Maria”, the tour-de-force rallying cry of “Common Man”, climate change on “Home”, and finally an assault on gun violence and the N.R.A. in the chilling “Ballad of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School”.
On ‘American Rust’, Donoma burst through expectations. With eight songs blazing through at thirty-four minutes, listeners are taken on a journey through today’s America with all of its hopes and dreams and flaws. The album opens with “Rustbelt Tragedy”, a no holds barred tribute to the American worker, and ends with “Road Song”, which tells the story of one man’s realization that he must fight for what he believes in. Between those staggering bookends, Donoma tackles millennial angst with the punky “Nobody Wants Us”, race relations on “Hands Are Up”, the young dreamer coming to America on the lilting “Maria”, the tour-de-force rallying cry of “Common Man”, climate change on “Home”, and finally an assault on gun violence and the N.R.A. in the chilling “Ballad of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School”.
