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Alternative PressElectrified certainly isn't the most original album you'll hear this year, but crunchy pop like this doesn't have to work very hard to impress the indie set. [Jul 2005, p.176]
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UncutA second cousin to New Pornographers' Electric Version. [Jul 2005, p.103]
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BlenderHappily, [their] dogged consistency works in their favor. [Jul 2005, p.117]
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This style shift does give Ealom some more flexibility in her range. But if the chipper, twee sounds of "I Found Out" and "Jenny Come On" were your initial draws to Dressy Bessy, then you might find the more punky direction a bit confounding.
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New Musical Express (NME)DB's spry, Breeders-style way of recasting '60s and '70s rawk is enough to rescue it--and us--from tedium. [23 Jul 2005, p.50]
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Dressy Bessy is a one-trick pony, and twelve songs of the same fuzzed-out retro-rock riffs are too much for one person to take at once.
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The album as a whole isn't interesting enough lyrically or musically to hold itself together.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 7
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Mixed: 0 out of 7
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Negative: 2 out of 7
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FrankHJul 29, 2005Wow, I really don't understand why they're not huge. The album is great and they put on an amazing live show.
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craigJun 21, 2005candidate for album of the year. pure pop pleasure that is both unpretentious and genuine.
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KevinJJun 16, 2005You keep waiting for that gorgeous pop song they've always been able to show on previous albums