GIRLS, you are not DUMb !

American-esque all-girls band Dum Dum Girls charges into the new decade with a brand new album I Will Be. I will be frank and declare that this album is as provocative and powerfull as a leopard print garter belt attached to black stockings. After listening to their album, where femininity rules and nags in the most seductive way, you easily can catalogue the Dum Dum Girls as the 2000 version of The Ronettes. But luckily in all the resemblance they manage to lay their own path.

These dum dum ladies explore a cool genre and musical brand by creating and exploring charming voices that go on being quite diffused. I mention voices because there is more than one component of the band that sings. A happening worthy of true praising, since none of them alone, would seem to be extraordinary, on the voice level at least. Together they make a difference, an actual decent one.

The girls go on and around their voices they add and so do compliment some songs with a new thing. New things such as a classical and boyish snare drum rhythm in It Only Takes One Night, Oh Mein Me (they make even German sound good) and in Yours Alone. Or an homage to Nancy Sinatra on Bhang Bhang, I’m a Burnout and even a male voice as guest on Blank Girl.

On other tracks they merge cunningly modern beats with the already 60-ish sound. Ergo tracks like Rest of Our Lives and Baby Don’t Go. If the album I Will Be was catalogued as a fancy garter belt, the track I Will Be is definitely the lacy bra. No push-up, just good fabric, if you think of it. From fast tempos (Everybody’s Out, Lines Her Eyes) to slow, endearing ballads (the magic duo Baby Don’t Go / Rest of Our Lives), the girls can deliver on both ends of any instrument.

The Ronettes were amazing, like Isis, Hera and Juno in one band. There has long been a feeling in the air of something even a little reminiscent of them. Something good not copy-cat. The Dum Dum Girls are to be patted on their heads and encouraged to take it to the next decade with even more style and power.