What a lovely way to start a miserable wet and rainy Saturday morning. I check my various e-mail accounts and in the one for this blog I find a link to a band called Dot Dash who grab my attention with the header of "dc band". I click a link and I'm immediately hit by the power of the drumming, the opening track is instantly impressive and hooks me straight in.
Reading further through the e-mail Dot Dash have a real heritage and consist of: -
Terry Banks - Vocals/Guitar
(Glo-Worm, The Saturday People, Tree Fort Angst, Julie Ocean)
Bill Crandall - Guitar
(Modest Proposal, Adam West)
Hunter Bennett - Bass
(Weatherhead, Julie Ocean)
Danny Ingram - Drums
(Youth Brigade (dc), Social Suicide, Madhouse, Emmapeel, Strange Boutique, Swervedriver and a few more that I can't think of)
So Danny explains the powerful drumming and with Terry, Hunter and Bill it explains the hook laden songs.
Dot Dash are a very accomplished powerpop/punk pop band, and this album speeds past you at a million miles an hour, not due to it's velocity, but due to the seamless sequence of flawless songs that take you on the musical equivalent of the perfect speed date.
The album starts with Faraway, full of atmosphere, Byrds like guitars and Buzzcocks trade mark "ooohs and ahhhs" and slips into track two, Countdown, equally hook laden and captivating. Before you realise it they've spun your head though a plethora of perfect pop songs and the album is finishing with The Devil's Road. All the intervening songs flow effortlessly into each other and are beautifully constructed with a clear/sharp production. This is a refreshingly uplifting album that I know will sit with me for years to come.
Thanks to the
Bandcamp website you can hear the album
here. You can also buy the album, for as little as, $7, which is a pittence for such a stunning piece of work.
Their Facebook page can be found
here
