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PopMatters
Doomin' Sun is indie music at its most engaging
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9.0
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DIY
Each song pirouettes on the emotional chasm between intimate, physical union, and lonesome psychological vulnerability
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8.5
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Under The Radar
Melina Duterte and Ellie Kempner already had no shortage of acclaim leading up to Bachelor’s inception. What they’ve accomplished with Doomin’ Sun is thus made all the more impressive, offering up a work that lives up to the pair’s best separate efforts and easily marries their different approaches to indie rock
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8.0
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Exclaim
Duterte and Kempner manage to break the mould with Doomin' Sun, proving their chops as singular visionaries as well as synergetic collaborators
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All Music
While varied in style and arrangements, the album maintains a certain heartfelt, longing tone and unvarnished immediacy that engage in tandem with its solid songwriting core
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8.0
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Northern Transmissions
Two weeks to craft, write and record an entire album from nothing seems like an insurmountable task but not when you have the right people involved and on Doomin’ Sun, Melina Duterte and Ellen Kempner prove that they are more than just the right people
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The Line Of Best Fit
An ode to the complexities and joy of love and friendship
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Paste Magazine
New collaborative project highlights the complementary talents of Jay Som’s Melina Duterte and Palehound’s Ellen Kempner
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7.5
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Beats Per Minute
Though Doomin’ Sun’s forbearing title tells us one thing, these songs at least compel you to undergo the worst thrown at you in the most comfortable of places. This album embraces you like your favorite seat, preserving your outline intimately in its fabric
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7.1
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Pitchfork
The collaborative album by Jay Som’s Melina Duterte and Palehound’s Ellen Kempner tells compelling and rarely heard stories, but doesn’t reach the same highs as their respective solo work
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Loud And Quiet
Doomin’ Sun is many things at once: a deep-dive into queerness, an exercise in vulnerability and the product of an effortless, working relationship where laughing is just as important as focus
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