{"id":3508,"date":"2012-01-03T11:26:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T17:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2012-01-03T11:26:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T17:26:03","slug":"dum-dum-girls-only-in-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2012\/01\/03\/dum-dum-girls-only-in-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Dum Dum Girls \u2013 Only In Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3509\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2012\/01\/03\/dum-dum-girls-%e2%80%93-only-in-dreams\/dum-dum-girls-only-in-dreams\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3509\" title=\"Dum-Dum-Girls-Only-In-Dreams\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dum-Dum-Girls-Only-In-Dreams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.326084726722911\">\u201cBut in half-dreams that shift and roll \/ And still remember and forget \/ My soul this hour has drawn your soul \/ A little nearer yet.\u201d <!--more-->These words, by artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rosetti, largely inspires the latest release of the Dum Dum Girls. <em>Only in Dreams<\/em> is a tidal wave of surf rock with reverb guitars, sultry and smooth vocals with edge, and catchy hooks appearing consecutively on each track. After the success of their first album <em>I Will Be<\/em> in 2007, <em>Only in Dreams<\/em> welcomes the girls back. Starting off explosively and continuing through with soft-punk\/surfer-femme pop rock fashion, it\u2019s reminiscent of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gogos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Go-Go\u2019s<\/a> but painted in red and finished off with some fishnets and combat boots. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YBSs3-RfLKk\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cBedroom Eyes\u201d<\/a> is a personal favorite and one that is beachy and fresh. It\u2019s all relative, though, as there\u2019s something to be said about each track. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ITaUxuhctY0\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cJust a Creep\u201d <\/a>shifts gears admirably, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4JjvOR-e4kw\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cComing Down\u201d<\/a> is packed with pain. The inner jacket\/album insert dedicates the disk to the recent passing of lead singer Kirsten Gundred\u2019s (stage name \u2018Dee Dee\u2019) mother, \u201cthe original Dee Dee.\u201d That being said, hearing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0XV_TExdaiU\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Hold Your Hand&#8221;<\/a> is a stirring and beautiful goodbye. Reconnecting in dreams, constant searching of one kind or another and sick hits culminate into one pumped-up album. (Sub Pop, <a href=\"http:\/\/subpop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">subpop.com\/<\/a>) <strong>Victoria King<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut in half-dreams that shift and roll \/ And still remember and forget \/ My soul this hour has drawn your soul \/ A little nearer yet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[537,747,915,924],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-ladies","tag-pop","tag-sub-pop","tag-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}