Dressy Bessy

Dressy Bessy's newest full-length celebrates pop music much like their previous LPs, but this album has a wider scope, more focus, a harder crunch and the ripest of melodies. Tammy Ealon is at her most Kim Deal-esque here, delivering deadpan sugary pop, all steely-eyed and smiles.

Denver's Dressy Bessy are devo-tees of the same kind of retropop sound as Apples in
Stereo and the New Pornographers, a hook-y, Sixties-derived jangle filtered through a
knowing indie-rock sensibility. Singer-guitarist Tammy Ealom delivers catchy choruses in a
nice-girl coo that's complemented perfectly by her mates' full-bodied guitars and punchy
rhythms, especially on "Baby Six String" and the punk-tempoed "Better Luck." W... More >