Dum Dum Girls: I Will Be | CD review

(Sub Pop)There are plural Dum Dum Girls now, but this album was recorded when the band comprised only singer-guitarist-drummer Dee Dee, aka Kristin Gundred, a woman in thrall to 1960s girl groups, besotted with her husband, and with a sharp ear for a producer. The first accounts for the style: bubblegum pop put through a shredder, the guitars blistered, vocals fuzzy and impassioned, everything underpinned by stark, blunt drums, the 11 songs hurtling by in less than 30 minutes. The husband, LA mu...

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