Suffering For Kisses – Love And Demise (EP – Suffering For Kisses)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: American artist Tony D’Oporto aka ‘The Gnome’ is involved with multiple projects like Gnomes Of Kush, Gnome & Spybey, Crisis Actor ao. Last year he also started with Suffering For Kisses and has already released a number of productions including two albums. He now strikes back with six new songs, which in a way reminds me of the good-old mini-album format.
Content: Suffering For Kisses is not simply Dark-Wave, but definitely driven by something 80s, which even reminds me of The Cure for a few passages. There also is a minimal approach while other parts have something evasive. The delicate piano arrangements inject a subtle touch to the work. A few guests contributed to the work featuring a female singer on the last track and a guitarist on the instrumental “Innocence”.
+ + + : Tony D’Oporto has accomplished an interesting fusion between good-old Dark-Wave music with something extra melancholic on top. I like the delicate approach at “Relapse”. A great aspect of the work is Tony’s timbre of voice, which has something enchanting.
– – – : This work is easy going by, enjoyable to listen, but definitely not the best work from this artist. I’m missing a ‘master’ song.
Conclusion: Suffering For Kisses brings you music to relax and dream away.
Best songs: “Relapse”, “Tonight”.
Rate: 6½.
Artist: www.facebook.com/sufferingforkisses
About Suffering For Kisses
Suffering For Kisses is the dark wave project of American musician Tony D’Oporto, who also works as The Gnome. A native of Los Angeles, California, he is based in Seattle, Washington, and has been active in electronic music since the early 1990s.
He also records as Gnomes Of Kush, as Gnome & Spybey with Mark Spybey of Dead Voices On Air, and as Crisis Actor with David Thrussell of Snog.
Discogs lists releases under the Suffering For Kisses name from 2018 onward: the self-released “Touch” and “Beautifully Dark” in 2018, the EP “Love, Loss & Regret” on Cold Kiss Records in 2019 and “Some Hurt More Than Others” on the same label in 2020. “Love And Demise” gathers six new songs.
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