Dominique and the Diamonds have released their last single ahead of the arrival of the band’s self-titled debut EP. “When You Call Me Baby” serves as a love letter to Dominique’s relationship with drummer, Craig Jacobs. “As most people do in the early days of a relationship, you’ll start calling your partner little cute names like ‘honey’ or ‘babe’. After he’d called me ‘baby’ for the first couple of times, I’d said to him, ‘Aw, I love when you call me baby’ and I thought, damn! That’s a song right there.” While the concept and song was initially written by Dominique, she’d thought it’d be more fitting to have Craig write the second verse.

“I was in no way, shape or form, looking for any sort of romance at the time I had fallen for Craig. We’d known each other for almost a decade and played music together many times over the years. We didn’t spend a ton of time together outside of that, just satellites in each other’s lives. It completely blindsided the both of us in the most beautiful way when we fell in love. It all happened so fast and we haven’t looked back since.”

The  video for the track was inspired by a typical 70s TV show performance, is directed by the band’s bass player, Hamilton Boyce. “This one was Hamilton’s idea. We were fortunate enough to shoot the video at Club TeeGee in Atwater Village, which ended up being really fitting as the venue is know for their popular country night ‘Two Step Tuesday’s’. They’ve got a massive disco ball in the middle of the room and the lightening just fit perfectly for Hamilton’s vision.”

Forming in 2024, the band was put together on a whim after Gomez was asked to perform a country set at LA’s summertime series, “The Grand Ole Echo”. Friends from the cosmic country group, Caravan 222, and rock band Triptides, were asked to join as a backing band for Gomez and since then have gained a local buzz throughout the year. With Gomez’s wide range and often compared tone to the likes of Linda Ronstadt, along with the band’s love for The Flying Burrito Brothers, Townes Van Zandt and 70s acts alike, Dominique and the Diamonds blend the right amount of contemporary feel to the vintage soul of classic country music.

“I write country music and love to sing country songs, but I’ve always associated myself with the Colombian half of my identity more than the white side. My Dad and his immediate family immigrated to the US from Colombia in 1966 and they’d endured so much struggle in the process. Then, you have my Mom’s side who were small town farmers in Minnesota and Southern trailer park girls. When you look at me, you see a brown girl, and I fucking love that. And when I was younger, I felt like I was forced to fit into a category, but I was too white to be Latina and too Latina to be white. It’s a beautiful thing to have the wisdom now to embrace both and just be me.”

Produced by Glenn Brigman (Triptides) in his mountain home studio, the band’s self titled, debut EP was recorded using a mixture of analog and digital equipment amongst the forest of Crestline, CA. The record rings true to the golden age of classic country music with tinges of romance, lonesomeness, storytelling, revenge and drunken playfulness, all while tying in the experiences of today’s world.