Henry's Dress

Henry's Dress were that rare band for us - a group that we discovered through a demo tape, and then only through the heroic perserverance of Amy. Boy, are we glad we finally listened! This ep documents the middle period of Henry's Dress, branching out from their initial interests in Loop-meets-MBV soundscaping psychedelic pop into the more mod/punk sounds that would fuel their later efforts. It's a superb, varied record well worthy of your further investigation.

Anyway you slice it, this record is a smash. Hard-hitting tracks like "Radio One" and "Feathers" are possibly their most overtly punk tracks, giving the Kill Rock Stars bands a lesson in catchy 1978 style antics. Amy's "A Is For Cribbage" is the Dress at their most mod, coming on like an early Who on a handful of Black Beauties - it's possibly our favorite Dress tune! And then of course there's "Sally Wants" and "Three" - a couple of blissed-out fuzzed-out downtempo tracks that beat the space-rockers to the punch by a few solid years.

Notes:

"Feathers" taken from split 7" with Tiger Trap (SLR 33)
"You Killed A Boy For Me" taken from Why Popstars Can't Dance vinyl lp (SLR 31)

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