"The Dum Dum Girls... From the discordant depths of the indie underworld comes a lo-fi superstar." NME
Released on February 15th via Sub Pop Records (SP869) 'Jail La La' is the first, and rather fine blissed-out pop 7" single taken from the Dum Dum Girls debut album, I Will Be (Sub Pop, March 29th). The single will be backed with 'Play With Fire' a track which is exclusive to this release and does not appear on the album.
Featured as the #1 best band at 2009's CMJ festival, Dum Dum Girls have confirmed their FIRST UK shows in February for a series of dates across the capital.
Having released an EP on Captured Tracks, a 7-inch on Hozac and a CD EP on Zoo Music, the Dum Dum Girls churn out blissful pop that falls somewhere between The Ramones and the Ronettes. Which, in our opinion, is a very good thing.
Produced by Dee Dee and Richard Gottehrer (Strangeloves, Voidoids, Blondie, The Go-Gos and, more recently, The Raveonettes), I Will Be is neither lo-fi nor too polished. Just eleven songs in under thirty minutes -- it's a short tribute to love, fun and the classic pop form of the '60's girl groups and early punk rockers.
A Grave With No Name is a band defined by the haze in their milky, pre-dawn landscape - for this is arguably music for the wee hours - gauzy light obscures the harder contours, while pure melody and distortion, chasing each other like the wind and sun, flicker silver and grey like ghostly echoes of each other in the fog. Spearheaded by lead singer / guitarist Alex Shields, along with bassist Tom King and drummer Anupa Madawela, A Grave With No Name's brittle yet fluid vision of music combines ethnic nostalgia, avant garde interpretations of folk and sheer abstraction - shadows and light, black and white, poetry and atmosphere in a style which uniquely situates them in the current music scene. As evidenced by the tracks on debut album "Mountan Debris", their music slips easily through interpretation - too eccentric to be deemed as pop, too strange to be pigeonholed as rock, too odd and too beautiful all round, really - it instead has more in common with the true American mavericks of yore. the windswept opener "And We Parted Ways At Mt Jade' sounds like Mark Linkous singing into a canyon for instance, while "Ghosts And Stones" calls to mind Daniel Johnston at his playfully melodic.
http://www.ticketweb.co.ukReleased on February 15th via Sub Pop Records (SP869) 'Jail La La' is the first, and rather fine blissed-out pop 7" single taken from the Dum Dum Girls debut album, I Will Be (Sub Pop, March 29th). The single will be backed with 'Play With Fire' a track which is exclusive to this release and does not appear on the album.
Featured as the #1 best band at 2009's CMJ festival, Dum Dum Girls have confirmed their FIRST UK shows in February for a series of dates across the capital.
Having released an EP on Captured Tracks, a 7-inch on Hozac and a CD EP on Zoo Music, the Dum Dum Girls churn out blissful pop that falls somewhere between The Ramones and the Ronettes. Which, in our opinion, is a very good thing.
Produced by Dee Dee and Richard Gottehrer (Strangeloves, Voidoids, Blondie, The Go-Gos and, more recently, The Raveonettes), I Will Be is neither lo-fi nor too polished. Just eleven songs in under thirty minutes -- it's a short tribute to love, fun and the classic pop form of the '60's girl groups and early punk rockers.
A Grave With No Name is a band defined by the haze in their milky, pre-dawn landscape - for this is arguably music for the wee hours - gauzy light obscures the harder contours, while pure melody and distortion, chasing each other like the wind and sun, flicker silver and grey like ghostly echoes of each other in the fog. Spearheaded by lead singer / guitarist Alex Shields, along with bassist Tom King and drummer Anupa Madawela, A Grave With No Name's brittle yet fluid vision of music combines ethnic nostalgia, avant garde interpretations of folk and sheer abstraction - shadows and light, black and white, poetry and atmosphere in a style which uniquely situates them in the current music scene. As evidenced by the tracks on debut album "Mountan Debris", their music slips easily through interpretation - too eccentric to be deemed as pop, too strange to be pigeonholed as rock, too odd and too beautiful all round, really - it instead has more in common with the true American mavericks of yore. the windswept opener "And We Parted Ways At Mt Jade' sounds like Mark Linkous singing into a canyon for instance, while "Ghosts And Stones" calls to mind Daniel Johnston at his playfully melodic.
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