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Funeral Dress, the debut album by Wussy, was released on December 6, 2005. The label, Shake It Records, released the album on CD format only. The album received mostly positive reviews. It was chosen as the 4th greatest album of the decade by prominent critic Robert Christgau. In 2015, SPIN ranked Funeral Dress #252 on their list of the 300 best albums of the last 30 years.
Has a real lively energy and a DIY sensibility. I like the variety of vocal performances. Fairly typical of its time. Almost anticipates some of the folk revival sounds of the late 2000s/early 2010s without quite sounding folky. Infectious little melodies and some good sing-along hooks.
Someone's from Cincinnati and it shows. 4 stars for a 4-way bean at Clifton and Ludlow. Here's a quarter, get me a York peppermint patty to finish it off.
I heard some inspiration of REM, Fleetwood Mac and Bruce Springsteen. But in totallity only 75% as good.
I didn't dislike anything about this, but there was nothing that yanked it into the 5th star realm for me.
Not sure this adds much musically to 90s era indie rock sound, but it's solid, and gains point for variety and the effectiveness of the dual vocals.
It's not bad, it just feels a bit amateurish at times maybe? 3 stars.
Nah... just nah, not interested. No more indie folk alternative please. 2/5.
Hmm, vocals don't always have to be in tune for music to still 'work'. But in this case for me it doesn't work. Does remind me of a somewhat mellow version of Dead Moon, although Dead Moon does work for me.
Except for Neil Young and Afghan Whigs I don't care much for out of tune singing lead vocalists. And here we have two of them.
It feels too indie, despite being contemporary it sounds quite seventies. Suddenly I went unnoticed.