When girl groups go jangly, etc…
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Alex Ostroff: Ghosts of girl groups past sing through a haze of sleeping pills that won’t work, haunted by the spectre of love lost and longing for them to solidify into the real thing. There’s both joy and desperation in Dee Dee’s pleas for your bedroom eyes. Her fear that she’ll never sleep again is as much a declaration of ecstatic devotion as it is a lament.
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Katherine St Asaph: If you’ve heard He Gets Me High, you’ve heard this, an even swap of fuzz for fullness of voice. If you’ve heard more than three minutes of this, though, you realize that the swap’s not so even after all, as they’ve also lost some dynamic variation.
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Edward Okulicz: I’m hearing the longing and tenderness, and I’m feeling it. When I say that the guitars chime with more melody than the singing, trust that it’s praise for the former more than an insult to the latter. “Bedroom Eyes” is warm, inviting and sweet.
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Jonathan Bogart: Classicism is a game of diminishing returns, especially when you can’t be bothered to put any effort into it.
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Zach Lyon: I always mix them up with Vivian Girls, so at first I thought, “Oh! How nice! There’s some melody! I’m still awake!” And then I remembered that this is the “Jail La La” band, which isn’t really that much better in my estimation, so I’m still grading on a curve: the chorus is gorgeous and urgent, and the verses give me some nostalgia for a 90s sound I never lived, and that’s about it.
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Brad Shoup: Airtight pop construction, to such a degree that I bet we could throw out a hundred antecedents, from Blondie to Galaxie. Dee Dee sails through the strongly-textured composition with opacity. Punch and professionalism, like a Chrissie Hynde cover of a C-86 song.
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