DOMi & JD BECK

Nothing about it made sense. With their screaming virtuosity, utterly eerie mindmeld, and shrugging irreverence toward their own astonishing gifts, DOMi Giant Nuts, they wowed blunt-puffing hip-hop heads with a dizzying 4 minutes and 20 seconds of live medley-ed Madvillain songs, and they rearranged the rules of pop by jamming with Ariana Grande and Thundercat on a pandemic-era livestream Domi on keys, head bobbing to the beat while using all four limbs to make a bands worth of sound, and JD on drums, looking like hes having the chillest time of his life at roughly 1,000,000 BPM. Paaks friskier APESHIT, Inc.

label. As their unclassifiable sound then whisked them to stages the world over, the duo were touted as Gen Z ambassadors between eras, genres, and energies And then poof! WHO ASKED?

No, were not yelling at you. Thats the answer. WHO ASKED?

is the long-awaited sophomore album from the French-born Domi Louna and Texas native JD Beck, and its just as surprising as you would expect, but also unlike anything they have done before somehow both simpler and more complex. Paak co-writing lyrics to one (HAD ENOUGH). On the other hand, there are more contributors than ever: a small sinfonietta of seasoned classical players press-ganged into bringing the duos incredibly singular, super maximalist, and strikingly beautiful orchestral vision to life.

Oh, and DOMi & JD BECK sing on pretty much every track. It might almost resemble chamber pop, if chamber pop had 50 times as many notes, shifty time signatures, and an overall vibe of jazz-born indietronica cut with verdant flower-child freedom.