Dye It Blonde
Album | Smith Westerns
Glammy, messy and excellent.
Smith Westerns' excellent sophomore album proves that the Chicago trio is more than just another scrappy lo-fi garage act. While previous recordings left the band coated in a layer of sloppy fuzz, Dye It Blonde is less rough around the edges and stuffed full of hooks. "Weekend" sounds like a marriage of Britpop and the best '70s stoner rock song you've never heard, while "Still New" could easily pass for a Walkmen song with more rangy vocals. Only a bunch of kids could get away with making a glammy messy rock album about dancing and loving and endless parties and wrap the whole thing up un-ironically with a song about dying young. The T. Rex comparisons might be a little too easy here, but few bands are making rock music this youthful and catchy and making it sound so easy.
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