Dressy Bessy
Kingsized
Album · Alternative · 2016 · Yep Roc Records
On their raucous, playful seventh album, these Colorado indie pop stalwarts craft potent, compact rave-ups that balance sugary pop pleasures with pointed poetics. The fuzz-drenched hooks, bouncing basslines, and revved-up rhythms of tracks like the jaunty “Pop Phenom” and the bashful “Make Mine Violet” add up to pure ear candy, and the plainly sardonic lyrics, delivered with matter-of-fact bravado by tart-tongued vocalist/guitarist Tammy Ealom, raise an eyebrow at conventional wisdom with wit and grace.
Kingsized
Dressy Bessy
On their raucous, playful seventh album, these Colorado indie pop stalwarts craft potent, compact rave-ups that balance sugary pop pleasures with pointed poetics. The fuzz-drenched hooks, bouncing basslines, and revved-up rhythms of tracks like the jaunty “Pop Phenom” and the bashful “Make Mine Violet” add up to pure ear candy, and the plainly sardonic lyrics, delivered with matter-of-fact bravado by tart-tongued vocalist/guitarist Tammy Ealom, raise an eyebrow at conventional wisdom with wit and grace.
