Dom Youdan Speaks To Us On Latest Single ‘Is Your Lover Still Cool’

London-born, Sydney-based songwriter Dom Youdan shares sweeping new single ‘Is Your Lover Still Cool’. It’s a dynamic track, which strikes at the heart of unrequited love through the warm, unfurling production; layers of electronica; organic instrumentation; Dom’s tender vocals.Speaking about ‘Is Your Lover Still Cool’, Youdan says: “I was an outrageous geek growing up, Is Your Lover Still Cool speaks to that; of not fitting in and feeling something for someone who doesn’t really see you. This song’s as much about gaining perspective as it is falling in love.”

Unreturned emotion is a well-trodden subject, and yet Dom Youdan handles it with such personal intimacy; that genuine feeling most of all heard in his honest lyrics, “how many sorry’s does it take to start to hurt?”

Dom Youdan found himself being signed on a Skype call before even releasing his first single. “Turns out the best way for a musician to stand out in London is to move to Australia!” says Dom after being discovered by London and Los Angeles based Hi-Tea Records and LME Publishing (Dido, Andreya Triana). This pivotal moment was preceded by the songwriter’s time in the UK, in which he would commute three and a half hours every day to and from a job he didn’t care for and felt he was merely surviving instead of thriving. Like many of us, Dom Youdan escaped into is mind and on these painstakingly long journeys, he began writing melodies to pass the time, Youdan went on to teach himself guitar and piano, write songs and play his first gig by the age of twenty-four. It was at his second-ever live gig that Youdan fell for an Australian in the audience, and this was the spark which inspired the new found songwriter to go on his Australian adventure releasing his debut Tigerlily EP  in 2017.

Youdan’s forthcoming EP explores his personal and collective memories, taking a universal, youthful moments and blurring them with his own – creating a space for discomfort and nostalgia.

Tilly McCarthy

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