Dum Dum Girls: "Lost Boys and Girls Club" (via SoundCloud)
Dum Dum Girls has announced its next album, the full-length followup to 2011's Only in Dreams and last year's strong End of Daze EP. Titled Too True, the album is out January 27 in Europe and January 28 in North America via Sub Pop.
The record features the newly-shared single "Lost Boys and Girls Club", the video for which is available to watch below via H&M. It was directed by Cody Critcheloe of SSION. That's the cover art, above. Check out the tracklist below. Other singles include "Are You Okay" and "Rimbaud Eyes", the latter of which comes on 7" vinyl when you pre-order the LP (backed by non-album cut "Girls Intuition".)
Too True was made in a New York apartment and two locations in Hollywood—East West Studios and the Chateau Marmont. It was produced by Richard Gottehrer (Blondie, the Go-Go's) and the Raveonettes' Sune Rose Wagner, who both also worked with Dum Dum Girls on Only in Dreams and the He Gets Me High EP.
In a press release, frontwoman and songwriter Dee Dee described her inspirations for the album. She mentioned the 1996 letter Nick Cave wrote to MTV, in which he resists being nominated for an award. She also wrote, "Do you hear Suede? Siouxie? Cold-wave Patti? Madonna? Cure? Velvet and Paisley Undergrounds? Stone Roses? Cuz I did."
In the statement, Dee Dee also discussed vocal troubles she encountered during recording, a result of touring, which gave her more time to fine-tune her writing. She said:
Truly one of those disguised blessings—the extra time was a gift. What initially felt like a retreat became a reawakening. These songs weren’t done at all! And so I worshipped at the tall pile of books I’d bought in Los Angeles, on topics and imagery I’d been consumed by and words that had resonated so deeply with me they felt like artistic collaborators: Rainer Maria Rilke, Anaïs Nin, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Charles Baudelaire, Sylvia Plath; the punk poet singers Patti Smith and Lou Reed (who, like many I consider to be my spiritual parents); and finally, an admittedly unhealthy obsession with the Surrealists’ manifesto of desire.
Here it was spelled out for me: Desire as muse; Life as experiment; a miracle for every failure and vice-versa. I put pen to paper and I wrote, and then I sang. I sang into my own private microphone, in my tiny bedroom studio, with no one save my make-believe coconspirators to hear me, and no one to weight me with the looming pressure of inability. I was a woman possessed and my possession enabled me.
Dum Dum Girls have tour dates coming up this winter in Europe and the U.S. Dates below.
Too True:
01 Cult of Love
02 Evil Blooms
03 Rimbaud Eyes
04 Are You Okay
05 Too True to Be Good
06 In the Wake of You
07 Lost Boys and Girls Club
08 Little Minx
09 Under These Hands
10 Trouble Is My Name
No comunicado , Dee Dee Vocal Também falamos se ela encontrou problemas durante a gravação, resultado da turnê , Que lhe deu mais tempo para ajustar sua escrita. Ela disse : E assim eu adorava a pilha alta de livros que eu tinha comprado em Los Angeles, sobre temas e imagens que eu tinha sido consumido e por palavras que ressoaram tão profundamente comigo Sentiam-se como colaboradores artísticos : Rainer Maria Rilke, Anais Nin, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine , Charles Baudelaire, Sylvia Plath, Os cantores do punk poeta como Patti Smith e Lou Reed ( que, como muitos eu considero meus pais espirituais ) e, finalmente , uma obsessão doentia com reconhecidamente manifesto do desejo dos surrealistas .
Eu coloquei a caneta no papel e escrevi , e então eu cantava. Eu cantei no meu próprio microfone privado , em meu pequeno estúdio de quarto , sem ninguém salvar meu conspiradores me ouvir, e ninguém para me peso com a pressão iminente de Incapacidade . Eu era uma mulher e me possuiu e minha posse habilitado .Dum Dum Girls têm datas da turnê chegando o inverno na Europa e os EUA as datas abaixo.
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