Dolce Blue deliver feline-inspired indie rock bliss in latest single 'Valentino'

Kalamunda (Western Australia)’s favourite indie wunderkinds, Dolce Blue return with a new single and final taste of their next album (due in June). ‘Valentino’ delivers more indie-rock bliss, becoming an ode to a cat of the same name.

Adding to an impressive catalogue, including their debut 13-track LP ‘Forever Is Too Long’, an EP, and a swag of singles, Dolce Blue stick to their foundation of all things sweet, with a hint of melancholia, with the new track.

‘Valentino’ is motown-esque indie rock, sweetened in its delivery, particularly in the amount of restraint shown; Dolce Blue keep a simple do-wop pace, the instrumentation is kept compact for the better part of the song, allowing front woman Veronica’s vocals to be spotlighted. The fast-strummed lead break towards the end could really signal in more hectic moments, but instead the band hold-steady, so as to not take from the focus. ‘Valentino’ is a song where you are permitted to pat its belly, and only its belly, for a maximum of two minutes and 37 seconds, no longer, and be satisfied with that.

Inspired by the love of her cat with the same name (pictured in the press shots) - releasing the track on his birthday March 29, as well as that meme that informs cats may indeed have the same mental problems as you, Dolce Blue’s frontwoman Veronica wrote Valentino as an expression of her own insecurities, anxieties, and regrets she she’s reflected in her feline friend.

“Valentino [the cat] has always been my shy little man, hiding when there's new people or sounds, just a little bit scared of everything. The song takes inspiration from how even though he’s scared to leave the house, he's inquisitive and wants to see/smell through the window. And I guess I can relate to that, how I like to think and dream about all the things I would like to do, just lack the courage to get out there and actually do them.” - Veronica Zurzolo

With the jangly strums of guitar the song starts out with the line “I want to be rich, but not the stuck up kind where I only talk about how much of the world I can buy” before firing away with the hooky chorus “Valentino why you hide? Is it really that scary?”. Playing on their strength of creating sonically dynamic compositions, Dolce Blue grow Valentino from a vulnerable expression of intimate feelings into its explosive peak of a harmony-drenched final chorus.

Be sure to stay informed with Dolce Blue’s movements leading up to their next album, ‘Dream Catcher, Nothing Bad, The Finest’ due out towards the middle of the year.

For now, take in ‘Valentino’, which is streaming on all platforms.