Title: He Gets Me High
Format: EP
Year: 2011
Label: Sub Pop
Genre: 60's girl group/Noise Pop
Rating: 71 / 100
Sub Pop is getting popular here, first a fantastic release by Papercuts, then the signing of two amazing new dream pop bands, and now this new Dum Dum Girls EP. The Dum Dum Girls are part of this fresh wave of female American garage bands, including Vivian Girls, Frankie Rose and The Outs, PENS and, since Ali Koehler joined, Best Coast. All playing mostly the same style of fuzzy, noisy, surfy, punk inspired pop music.
This EP is a 13 minute sequel to their debut album I Will Be, before their official debut they also released some EP's (three I guess) and a 4-way split with Grafitti Island, Crocodiles and PENS. Compared to their earlier releases absolutely nothing has changed, still the same simple, garage pop. This time they chose to cover There Is a Light That Never Goes Out, orginally recorded by The Smiths. By covering a song like this, there is always the possibility of raping a classic, which they really didn't. They made this songs theirs in the same manner Nouvelle Vague makes 80's new wave classics theirs. I even have to admit I like the Dum Dum Girls version just a little bit more.
The other three songs are just like one has heard earlier from them, the first two a bit more up-tempo, the third a bit slower. The reason why I didn't give this EP any higher is because I like Dum Dum Girls the most playing fast, and this EP was just a bit too slow for me, no problem, but it keeps me from jumping around the house. I love Dum Dum Girls, and always will, this release is definitely their best EP, but if it was just a bit faster, it could easily be rated 10 points higher.
Everyone! Put more reverb on your drums!
Selwin.
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