(2 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

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Tim Kvasnosky and Timothy Shumaker aka Home & Garden are a couple of dance music shadow-composers which have a go, for the first time at their first album, with a little help from their friends, and like the Beatles sang, they get by, and they get high.
When the PR lady contacted me and described the album’s genre as (and I quote) “dance-influenced deep house with chill down tempo mixes” my jaw dropped, sub-genres can get real exhausting at times. When I listened to the album, I realized she had not much choice, this album is indeed as she described, but over all it’s proper house music, and it works.

Some pointers about the album, I’ve heard songs I really liked, and songs I liked a bit, but there was not a song to dislike. All of the tracks are made with the smoothness and groove which varies from talking music, to party starters and all of them are well produced.

First track (Easy Going Down) is a favorite of mine with an “end of the nineties” feeling. Featuring Jennifer Karr’s beautiful airy voice and complementing it with a solid baseline and chorused guitars as a floor.
Track number three which is the title track for the album “Domesticated” is a funky lyrical song. Collaborated with Derrick Carter (DJ/Producer/Friend), Home & Garden take you on a bouncy story telling song mostly about lifestyle. Have I heard this song on the radio or at a party, I would be already looking for it on the web.

For the ones of saying, well, where is the house? It’s here, happening big at the fifth track of this album, Someday with Lisa Shaw. It’s not easy to carry a groove with a base, organ drums and a vocalist (amazing as she might be) for a whole tune length but apparently it is possible. As I was missing some kind of a build up into a new mood (progressive djs for life I guess) this song didn’t fail to deliver at all, I can’t hold myself, just played it again.

Track number eight is In & Out with Chez Damier and you guys get it for free, just for reading this review here in THCDJ.com so go on and download, you can also preview it here.

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As anything I’ll say about this track wont matter since you’ll download it anyway, let me just tell you it’s a very groovy house tune that pumps out energy like the best of them.
Down tempo is the best way to describe the tenth song, Mic Murphy solos, boy band style and what you get is not quite a mainstream pop song, hard to explain, easy to listen.

Overall this album is not only an artist album; it’s also a compilation of amazing artists giving their love and appreciation to a duo, well worth it.

This Album hasn’t a release date yet (that I know of)Relase date: 23rd of September amd then when its out you can purchase it from Om-Records

Tracklist:
1. Easy Going Down Feat Jennifer Karr
2. All The Same Feat Colette
3. Domesticated Feat Derrick Carter
4. El Cortez
5. Someday Feat Lisa Shaw
6. Endless Pieces Feat Lucy Woodward
7. Body & Soul Feat Mic Murphy
8. In and Out with Chez Damier
9. Wanna Walk Away Feat Lisa Shaw
10. Sunday Morning Feat Mic Murphy
11. Braille Feat Russell Taylor

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