Watercolored shares ethereal new single "Dominos"

Watercolored is the musical endeavor of singer/songwriter/ producer Itai Bauman. With his latest single, "Dominos," Bauman once again makes it all too clear that he's building worlds.

"Dominos" drifts like a dream suspended somewhere. It's the type of song that draws you in silently, like the tide receding to expose the ocean's secrets. Bauman, who attended Rimon Contemporary Music School and practiced production at Catalyst Berlin and Thinkspace Education, is skilled at piling sounds atop one another in a simultaneously cinematic and personal manner.

From "Tears of the Sea," a concept album that seems to be about emotional tides as much as the terrains it charts, "Dominos" is the sensation of reaching up to grip a surface and finding it eroding beneath you. Yet there is no chaos here, only the beauty of the collapsing. The track's lush ambient textures and dreamy, melancholic melodies glisten with the echoes of Porcupine Tree and Mercury Rev, a tip of the hat to his influences while still sounding entirely his own.

Watercolored lets the music linger, recoiling the way the last light of the sunset bleeds into the sea. "Dominos" is a masterclass in restraint, with every synth stroke, chord, and breathy vocal line feeling as precise as the next. And the song wanes, crests, and fades, leaving you with no answers but a haunting sense of wonder. If this single is anything to judge, "Tears of the Sea" by Watercolored is only starting to come in. "Dominos" is a fragile moment of quiet reckoning that is unforgettable.

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