xpost are you talking about "Lord Knows" monotony?
― Pat Finn, Monday, 22 April 2013 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
thanks for the link Leee. i hope they release a studio version of that... a noisier "be my baby" might just be the "perfect pop song."
― Pat Finn, Monday, 22 April 2013 04:05 (eleven years ago) link
a noisier "be my baby" might just be the "perfect pop song."
Be My Baby is the perfect pop song as-is, thank you very much.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 22 April 2013 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
b-but guitar fuzz makes things better
― Pat Finn, Monday, 22 April 2013 04:20 (eleven years ago) link
Pat, monotony is referring to "Coming Down."
― R = J - L (Leee), Monday, 22 April 2013 04:39 (eleven years ago) link
ahh, that's a good track too. not as good as "fade into you," but then again, hardly anything is.
― Pat Finn, Monday, 22 April 2013 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
I absolutely love the Mayfair Set but have never gotten into Dum Dum Girls. Or Blank Dogs for that matter.
― You can fondle the cube but it will not respond. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 22 April 2013 05:04 (eleven years ago) link
^blank dogs are very very patchy imo
― Andrew Stockdale Kills Wolfmother, self (electricsound), Monday, 22 April 2013 07:54 (eleven years ago) link
Looks like we've touched on everything interesting about them!
― R = J - L (Leee), Friday, 26 April 2013 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
"Cming Down" and "Fade Into You" are like two equally delicious pizzas from different pizzerias.
― cougars and sneezers (Eazy), Friday, 26 April 2013 04:30 (eleven years ago) link
I've had Only In Dreams since it came out but never really listened to anything else of theirs until today. Didn't really enjoy I Will Be at all, no songs really stood out to me at all. Bedroom Eyes and Coming Down are the big highlights from Only In Dreams.
I then listened to End of Daze which is pretty much perfect. If they can keep up that kind of quality for their next full length album then they could well make a masterpiece. It seems like their songwriting has got so much better very quickly.
Agree that Coming Down sounds just like Mazzy Star but I enjoy it so much more, that is one amazing vocal she does on it.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 26 April 2013 07:53 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sure the Dum Dum Girls get talked about on another thread. Maybe an old Rolling Indie one? The Pretenders-aping on a few of the tracks on the last one was incredible, but they're great songs either way.
― Walter Galt, Friday, 26 April 2013 10:53 (eleven years ago) link
New album in January, and new single.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg-FQbQW6e8
― monotony, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 19:37 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UfB_SkBaQA
Sandy's side project where she comes out from behind the drums.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
the gentrification of chill (Pat Finn)
― buzza, Saturday, 7 December 2013 06:53 (ten years ago) link
unchill
― kel's vintage port (electricsound), Saturday, 7 December 2013 06:55 (ten years ago) link
Hey are we sure that's the real Dee Dee in the "Lost Boys and Girls Club" video? She's not even wearing fancy stockings.
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Saturday, 7 December 2013 20:14 (ten years ago) link
New single isn't really grabbing me that much. I was expecting big things from the new album after how fantastic that last EP was.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 8 December 2013 01:58 (ten years ago) link
Love this.
https://soundcloud.com/subpop/dum-dum-girls-rimbaud-eyes
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 13 January 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
On my first run through the new one Too True and it is IMMEDIATELY my favorite of their albums.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
Still think End of Daze is their best if you're including EPs but I do really like this. Apparently a lot of their older fans aren't too happy with this album but I think this shiny production suits them.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 18:40 (ten years ago) link
GO BIG, DEE DEE, GO BIG!
― I'll take the jangle-jangle over the throb-throb (brg30), Thursday, 30 January 2014 03:41 (ten years ago) link
"lost boys and girls club" kind of demolishes anything else on the album, but still solid
― katherine, Thursday, 30 January 2014 07:20 (ten years ago) link
On Letterman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvQ54BF-3u8
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 31 January 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
It's not one of my favorites, but the baseline of quality here is quite high. It would certainly be the best song on a weaker album.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 31 January 2014 16:59 (ten years ago) link
This album sounds so much less forced/mannered than some of the other recent work, less like a pastiche and more like the work of an artist filtering her/their influences. This could easily have come out on 4AD in 1994, so I kind of automatically love it.
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Saturday, 1 February 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
currently playing this to my o/h on Spotify while he tries to work out who it is. In the first 2 seconds he guessed Ladytron which is kind of otm. Now it's sounding a bit Garbagey.
― kinder, Saturday, 1 February 2014 15:05 (ten years ago) link
oh he's got it now
I love this band, I love this album... but that is some seriously off-key singing in the Letterman clip up there.
― Davey D, Saturday, 1 February 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
IMO they lost something when they stopped wearing the fancy stockings. :\
― Neil Nosepicker (Leee), Saturday, 1 February 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/v/fvQ54BF-3u8&fs=1&hl=en
― Johnny Fever, Friday, January 31, 2014 11:58 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is a 'shreds' video, right?
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Saturday, 1 February 2014 21:33 (ten years ago) link
I love this band, I love this album... but that is some seriously off-key singing in the Letterman clip up there.― Davey D, Saturday, February 1, 2014
― Davey D, Saturday, February 1, 2014
i notice this a lot in the video clips of their live-sets. still love this band.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 1 February 2014 21:35 (ten years ago) link
I love this band too, but not the new sound. Only In Dreams was perfect.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 1 February 2014 22:09 (ten years ago) link
yeah. also, that last ep they released was the best thing they've done, imo.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 1 February 2014 22:14 (ten years ago) link
Agree that the EP is the best thing they've done, it's almost perfect. This album is really great too but not quite in that league.
She does seem to be singing the song in the wrong key on that Letterman performance.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 2 February 2014 03:49 (ten years ago) link
Finally listened to the album, and yeah, quite excellent! I'm still partial to the lofi scuzz of the first album, but the songcraft on Too True is a lot better than the second album IMO.
Dunno why the videos embedded above didn't make much of an impression on me, maybe Dee Dee's off-key singing put me off in the Letterman performance?
― Neil Nosepicker (Leee), Sunday, 2 February 2014 21:01 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BginwbzIEAA1ZWE.jpg
love this band.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 15 February 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link
this is my favorite thing they've done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H75lCB6Sf0
― james franco, Saturday, 15 February 2014 22:16 (ten years ago) link
Between "Why be good? / Be beautiful and sad," and the Sisters of Mercy vibe on a couple tracks, this is a real gothed out album.
― eeeLectrelane (Leee), Sunday, 16 February 2014 04:24 (ten years ago) link
Or as Phil sez, 4AD.
― eeeLectrelane (Leee), Sunday, 16 February 2014 04:43 (ten years ago) link
Going to see them tonight!
― Ned Zeppelin (Leee), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 21:09 (ten years ago) link
Slow "Lost Boys and Girls Club" is deadly.
― Ned Zeppelin (Leee), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
I'm liking the new (ish) album well enough but it's not all blowing me away. First track, however, sounds exactly like Ladytron (v good)
― kinder, Saturday, 26 April 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
I gave up on it after three listens, half-intending to revisit it towards year-end.
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Saturday, 26 April 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
A full show, for posterity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayb03dUNkKM
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Saturday, 26 April 2014 17:12 (ten years ago) link
album is wonderful.
― akm, Sunday, 27 April 2014 16:05 (ten years ago) link
so is that shirt
― akm, Sunday, 27 April 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link
New Dee Dee side project: https://soundcloud.com/huni-boi/is-there-any-other-one
It's definitely a departure from her other stuff. It's growing on me though.
― Leonard Pine, Sunday, 17 May 2015 07:35 (nine years ago) link
I am really getting sick of synth pop.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 17 May 2015 14:04 (nine years ago) link
Fortunately for you, that's not what that is. It's that weird hazy mutant r&b which there seems to be a surplus of in the past 2-3 years. It was really refreshing at first, but now there's SO FUCKING MUCH of it that you really have to dig for songs that are good rather than just half-assed ideas run through the machine. Sort of disappointed Dee Dee's was one of the latter.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 17 May 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
Sometimes I feel like I am living in an episode of The Simpsons
I felt compelled to shed the alter-ego instead of trying to morph Dum Dum Girls into something else. I didn't want to mess with that legacy. So yeah, I'm Kristin.
www.pitchfork.com/news/63227-dee-dee-of-dum-dum-girls-announces-solo-project-as-kristin-kontrol/
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 29 January 2016 12:23 (eight years ago) link
I'm cooll with that
― akm, Friday, 29 January 2016 14:12 (eight years ago) link
brief audio clip sounds excellent, I'm sure some people will go wtf.
― akm, Friday, 29 January 2016 14:14 (eight years ago) link
Shambhala is taking over the world!
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 29 January 2016 14:30 (eight years ago) link
I'm going wtf. This sounds like everything else that's out now. I thought I was a huge fan of hers, turns out I really only like Only In Dreams.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 29 January 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link
That time in every young woman's life when she discovers New Order records.
― Liebe ist kälter als der Todmorden (Branwell with an N), Friday, 29 January 2016 14:40 (eight years ago) link
I don't see what is Simpsons-like about this. She's losing the alter ego Dee Dee and going by her real first name for her new project. Is there something weird about that?
― JRN, Friday, 29 January 2016 16:35 (eight years ago) link
I realize her real first name is Kristin but "Kristin Kontrol" is also an alter ego, is what I was getting at here
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 29 January 2016 16:40 (eight years ago) link
That time in every young woman's life when she discovers New Order records.― Liebe ist kälter als der Todmorden (Branwell with an N), Friday, 29 January 2016 14:40 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Liebe ist kälter als der Todmorden (Branwell with an N), Friday, 29 January 2016 14:40 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
― kinder, Friday, 29 January 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link
i like it obv
I feel like if we can possibly get her in a red and black outfit involving a tie, singing about sex with robots, this will be an A++ result and I will buy the record.
― Liebe ist kälter als der Todmorden (Branwell with an N), Friday, 29 January 2016 17:21 (eight years ago) link
yesssssss we're going to get 10 more "lost boys and girls club"
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, 29 January 2016 19:22 (eight years ago) link
Going back a bit, but I thought we talked about Sisu on this thread, but I guess not - I liked this song but never got around to hearing morehttps://thisisthatsong.wordpress.com/2013/12/13/12-13-13-harpoons-by-sisu/
― kinder, Friday, 29 January 2016 20:13 (eight years ago) link
Man I wish I wasn't a year behind on the shambhala thread. I need a weekend to zip through the '15 thread!
― kinder, Friday, 29 January 2016 20:16 (eight years ago) link
I take back what I said upthread. The song X-Communicate is fantastic.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 13 March 2016 01:38 (eight years ago) link
So this Kristin Kontrol album is a motherfucking scorcher!
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 20 May 2016 03:44 (eight years ago) link
As a pretty big Dee Dee fan I hope it grows on me a bit more. Lots to love overall but some of it feels a little too generic/anonymous pop to me . . . e.g. parts of Wannabe, Skin Shed, Going Thru the Motions. I'm only like three listens in though and I suspect it'll sound better on the speakers in the living room this weekend then it has on my sleepy morning train commute. Wish I could've caught her DJ set last night but plan to see one or two of her shows next month.
She hasn't actually announced the dissolution of Dum Dum Girls, has she? Interview in Hollywood Reporter this week said that she "announced in January her departure from the band to focus on her solo project" but I don't think I'd read that anywhere else and am hoping it's just a misinterpretation of what she said. Haven't checked my iTunes stats but I wouldn't be surprised if Too True was my most played album over the last two years.
― early rejecter, Friday, 20 May 2016 14:20 (eight years ago) link
Isn't she the Billy Corgan of DDG?
― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Friday, 20 May 2016 17:51 (eight years ago) link
DDG was mostly her yeah at least until the last album. I don't think she announced her 'departure from the band' she just said there was different sorts of music she felt like making and it didn't fit into the DDG ethos.
― akm, Sunday, 22 May 2016 14:57 (eight years ago) link
as for the Kristin Kontrol album: I'm not feeling it at all and I like absolutely everything else she's done. It's not that I disagree with the approach, I just think the songs aren't very interesting or strong musically, or at worst they are bad (Skin Shed).
― akm, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 13:16 (eight years ago) link
There's some good stuff on the album, I was just expecting way more based on how much I loved the first single.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 13:30 (eight years ago) link
i like the few kristin kontrol tracks i've heard. everyone needs to break out the synths at some point or other in their career.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 13:40 (eight years ago) link