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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: Dressy Bessy |
| Date | Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:09:24 -0500 |
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At 10:26 AM 12/12/2003 -0600, Miles Goosens wrote:
>Hey, speaking of Dressy Bessy, I heard the entirety of their latest
>album on the PA during Wednesday night's fun 'n' sweet Rich Creamy Paint
>show (y'all *do* know that Rich Creamy Paint* has a new album, right?),
>and I was *very* impressed with it. Mind you, it's just one listen over
>a PA in a noisy club, but it sounded to me like the record I thought Liz
>Phair** might be making these days. I'd never heard Dressy Bessy before
>outside of the Powerpuff Girls soundtracks, so their new one really took
>me (pleasantly) by surprise.
The new Dressy Bessy is pretty terrific, but it's a bit of a departure from
their earlier records: the press kit made a big point of trumpeting "Look!
Recorded in a real studio! Uses more than 4 tracks at a time!" I also get
the vibe that perhaps a bit of AutoTune was applied as well: Tammy Ealom's
vocals don't go nearly as wayward as they used to. None of this is a bad
thing, and I do like their earlier albums a lot -- all available on eMusic,
incidentally -- but anyone wanting to catch up on their earlier work might
want to recalibrate their expectations.
S
NP: THE HOMELAND -- Bobby Conn
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