Give Me All Your Money | CD
- Pollen Tom
- The Most
- A Dark Time for the Light Side of the Earth
- Big Future
- Let You Down
- No no no
- Charles Knives
- Joybirds
- The Day is Done
- Dead Stars
- Sidestepping
- When You Go
release date: march 21, 2005
You drop the metaphorical needle on Give Me All Your Money and wonder: What godforsaken little shrub have these guys been hiding under for the past 30 years? Truth be told, they were at best toddlers, if even born, in the new-wave dawn of the early 70's. But music has a way of inflecting the not-quite-fully-wired hemispheres of children that parents can only dread, and never inoculate against; someone, somewhere in front man Matt Dunehoo's earliest years, had a damn fine record collection.
Which is not to say Doris Henson is riding the same wagon with this year's crop of retro-futurist new-wave-wavers. On the contrary, they quite simply sound like a band you read about in Trouser Press in 1984, and after two decades of combing through mildewy bins at used record stores, you finally come across a time capsule that sounds every bit as new now as it would have then, if anyone had ever actually heard of it. Even its production values, tube-smashed to the midrange, speak of a time when music was less obsessed with digital perfection, and relied instead on composition, arrangement, and the organic gestalt of five guys in a room plus instruments and a tape recorder.