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

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