X-Communicate

Kristin Kontrol, “X-Communicate” (SubPop, 2016)
I loved the DumDum Girls all through their transformation into a more airbrushed variety of garage-punk machine, but this goes way beyond that into full on ‘80s-style big-beat studio art-pop, like a Jane Wiedlin solo album. Thing is, like Jane, DeeDee writes great songs, all elegantly classic sweet melancholy or spiky adventurism.
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