![]() Like Only in Dreams, Daze is an exploration of the feelings triggered by the recent death of Dee Dee's mother. "I've dreamed a death/ It's mine tonight," Dee Dee drawls on the opener "Mine Tonight", which smolders slowly and purposefully for a minute and a half before bursting into a panoramic blaze. Now, on End of Daze, they're now penning some dark gems of their own. Sandy's kick drum towered 10-stories high and Dee Dee sold the track's jet-black drama, uttering her chilling delivery of "I want to see people and I want to see life" like a member of the walking dead. Bold is the band that thinks it can bring something new to the song that's launched a million mascara tears, but Dum Dum Girls pulled it off in grand style. It was a collection of cheery, upbeat songs about infatuation, except for the closing track - a cover of the Smiths classic "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out". Last year's terrific, four-song He Gets Me High EP introduced a newfound Chrissie Hynde-like depth to Dee Dee's voice and new-car glimmer to the Girls' formerly lo-fi sound. This isn't the first time an EP has marked a turning point in the Dum Dum Girls' run. ![]() Unhurried but not a beat too long, End of Daze is a confident and comprehensive showcase for everything Dum Dum Girls do well, from luxuriant, moody ballads to driving, melodic guitar pop- and after 18 minutes, it punches the time clock like somebody who just declared checkmate: Your move, every other band trying to sound like this. Though they've turned into a versatile band comfortable in an array of styles, their roots are in garage rock, a sound that has a long history of mining the potential of brevity: It's a genre built on a foundation of singles, whose holy text is aptly titled "Nuggets", and whose philosophy is summarized by a song that went "I hope I die before I get old." Though Dum Dum Girls' latest EP, End of Daze, has a handful of gothic influences, its all-killer-no-filler concision feels like a tribute to the spirit that they've have been riffing on since their debut, I Will Be. It makes sense that Dum Dum Girls thrive in short form. ![]()
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