I Will Be
Album | Dum Dum Girls
We've heard all this before, but that's no bad thing.
So Dum Dum Girls are either a distaff Wavves (Kristin Gundred, aka Dee Dee, wrote all the songs except for a cover of Sonny and Cher's "Baby Don't Go" and plays all the instruments except for a handful of guitar parts) or a one-woman Vivian Girls (whose former drummer Frankie Rose is now in the DDGs' touring lineup), or maybe she's the twenty-teens' answer to the Go-Go's (whose producer Richard Gottehrer claims credit for the homemade-sounding lo-fi production). One thing's for certain: we've heard all this before. Not that this is a bad thing -- originality can be terribly overrated -- and what elevates I Will Be above most of the other cruddy-sounding albums full of three-chord, two-minute pop songs that have come out of Brooklyn in the last several years is that Gundred has assimilated several generations' worth of punk and bubblegum pop hits, from the Shangri-Las to the Pains of Being Pure At Heart, and has hit an enviable balance of bratty attitude and pure-pop suss. Strip out the feedback and "Blank Girl" or the title track could have been vintage '60s girl-group hits. Maybe she'll be this generation's Redd Kross: we could use one of those!
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