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  Diamond Rings Feeling Glad to Be Alive on 'Free Dimensional'

  August 3, 2012 – Diamond Rings' John O'Regan wrote most of his glammy pop project's darkly, irresistible 2010 debut, Special Affections, while he was in a hospital recovering from Crohn's disease. It's understandable, then, that album had a mortality-minded lyrical undercurrent. Thankfully the situation was far less dire for the follow-up, Free Dimensional, out October 23. The first album's plangent guitars have been replaced by swooshing synths. …
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  The Style Issue: Diamond Rings

  August 14, 2011 – Shy and confused, John O'Regan couldn't figure? out who he was, before a health scare forced him? to look inside. Now he's impossible to miss. John O'Regan's teenage years were typical, insofar as they sort of sucked. Growing up in Oshawa, Ontario, an automotive-industry city 30 miles northeast of Toronto, he didn't go to many parties or go on many dates, and his basketball teammates sometimes called him faggot. …
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  Diamond Rings, 'Special Affections' (Astralwerks)

  June 21, 2011 – Late last decade, John O'Regan fronted brash Toronto rockers the D'Urbervilles, but after being hospitalized with Crohn's disease, the singer reinvented himself as synth-popper Diamond Rings. The result of this self-therapy is a classic post-traumatic-stress album that masks its who-am-I-now? introspection with garish hooks and blunt beats. …
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