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I Will Be Image
Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 21 Ratings

  • Summary: The debut album for Dee Dee (aka Kristen Gundred) was recorded with the help of producer Richard Gottehrer.
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  1. Positive: 20 out of 23
  2. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. I Will Be always sounds erratically adolescent in the best possible sense.
  2. 80
    On her Dum Dum debut, assisted by Blondie and Go-Go's producer Richard Gottehrer, she cages contagious odes to husband-Crocodiles singer Brandon Welchez (as well as anxious ruminations on losing him) in metallic distortion.
  3. Q Magazine
    80
    There's nothing here that hasn't been heard before from countless others, but it's put together with impeccable taste and--importantly--a skilled ear for a tune. [May 2010, p.118]
  4. This rollicking debut album is a balance-redressing, cliché-bucking tonic.
  5. Mostly, though, I Will Be is a flawlessly light album that floats to the top of a lo-fi pond overcrowded with sinking debris.
  6. The Dum Dum Girls’ debut, I Will Be, plays like a veritable best-of of current trends in lo-fi rock ‘n' pop. In fact, the disc’s (admittedly exhilarating) fidelity to the budding-but-already-overdone genre nearly weighs it down.
  7. The summery feel and gloriously messy pop sensibility are at times great fun, but with something that is so derivative, it is hard to get too carried away without getting an urge to switch this album off and dig out the originals.

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