Dominique spent years as a session multi-instrumentalist — guitar, keys, whatever a session called for — bouncing between tours before she started writing about music instead of just playing it. That background shapes how she reviews: always from a player's perspective, always measuring an artist against what they were reaching for rather than some outside scorecard. She's generous, but she's honest — if a bridge doesn't quite land, she'll tell you, and she'll tell you why the reach still mattered.