{"id":8201,"date":"2013-12-23T15:04:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T15:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=8201"},"modified":"2013-12-23T15:04:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T15:04:24","slug":"the-party-dress-youre-dead-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/12\/23\/the-party-dress-youre-dead-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Party Dress \u2013 You\u2019re Dead 7\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/12\/23\/the-party-dress-youre-dead-7\/tumblr_inline_my6yk27ffy1qebjek\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8218\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8218\" alt=\"tumblr_inline_my6yk27FFY1qebjek\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_inline_my6yk27FFY1qebjek-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Party Dress played their first show for the last <em>Stylus<\/em> release back in October with a set full of thick, turned-up, and jagged rock \u2018n\u2019 roll.<!--more--> Now, thanks to new local label Bonzer Records, they\u2019ve got a freshly-pressed 7\u201d single, and it spares none of the kick-assery that their debut live show (and hopefully, all the ones to come) pulled off so easily. The true single and start to side A, \u201cYou\u2019re Dead,\u201d is immediately dangerous-sounding, with sharp and swampy guitar thrash backing up front man Reuben Todd\u2019s otherworldly, mutant howl: \u201cthe devil called me on the telephone\/he said \u2018son I\u2019ll make this place your home.\u2019\u201d It sounds like a showdown between man and Lucifer inside a voodoo cemetery set on fire. \u201cToo Cool to Have Fun\u201d is slightly more reserved, but it\u2019s safe to say nothing The Party Dress does is ever really reserved. It\u2019s old-school simple, with fuzzy guitar holding ground to a driving, grungy bass line, with breaks in between verses that sound almost like early, extra-angry Nirvana.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The B-side, \u201cGrave Clothes,\u201d is like the soundtrack to a tense and long, slow-moving shot running through a saloon somewhere on the outskirts of Hell, filled with unsavoury characters looking for an excuse to shoot one another. Then the break comes in, the lights go out, and everything turns into a sexy, sweaty, hallucinatory dance party. By the time the vicious, climax guitar solo ends, everyone drops to the floor, too tired to go on. It\u2019s rare that a band with such a badass live show can harness that on tape (especially a debut), but the DIY production and \u2018who-gives-a-fuck?\u2019 attitude make this 7\u201d a relentlessly fun rock \u2018n\u2019 roll gem. (Bonzer Records, <a href=\"http:\/\/thepartydress.tk\" target=\"_blank\">thepartydress.tk<\/a>) <strong>Matt Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Party Dress played their first show for the last Stylus release back in October with a set full of thick, turned-up, and jagged rock \u2018n\u2019 roll.<\/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":[563,1071],"class_list":["post-8201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-local","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201","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=8201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}