Smith Westerns: Dye It Blonde – review

(Domino)Chicago's Smith Westerns started in thrall to compilations of 60s garage rock, such as Nuggets, before their listening habits moved on a few years – to David Bowie when he was still wearing makeup, Marc Bolan in silver lamé and the like. Their second album reflects that change in their tastes, blending the trebly, reedy, fuzzed guitar sound of the glam era with pop hooks and a brimming spoonful of creamy psychedelia. None of the individual elements are terribly original, but the way t...

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