With End of Daze, that was when I started bringing in the more textural guitar stuff. The next record was when I started working with Sune from The Raveonettes and Richard a little more seriously, instead of recording into a 4-track or my GarageBand.
That’s where I was, not just as a songwriter, but skill-wise in terms of recording myself.
Was that inspired by anything specific?ĭee Dee: The first record was pretty straightforward. It has a very atmospheric quality to it, more so than your other albums. Dee Dee spoke to Under the Radar about the genesis of Too True and the process of moving on.įrank Valish ( Under the Radar): I love the new album. With Too True, Dee Dee further explores the atmospheric, ethereal textures that often filled End of Daze, and in this way the album is something of an antithesis to the punky girl-group bliss of the band’s earlier work. The band’s subsequent End of Daze EP found her starting to turn the corner, and Too True finds her in a new space, both emotionally and, to some degree, musically as well. After the tragic death of her mother, which informed 2011’s Only In Dreams, Dee Dee slowly started to exorcise her pain and hurt. Dum Dum Girls’ third full-length album, Too True, represents a new chapter in the musical life of frontwoman Dee Dee (who used to go by Dee Dee Penny, but now prefers no surname).