Stream: Dilly Dally, ‘Purple Rage’ and ‘Desire’

Kevin Bronson on October 27th, 2015

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Dilly Dally hurts a little bit. The Toronto quartet — founding members Katie Monks and Liz Ball, now with bassist Jimmy Tony and drummer Benjamin Reinhartz — play indie rock like the Pixies and Nirvana never existed, at once menacing and sweet. Their debut album “Sore” came out Oct. 9 on Partisan Records, featuring Monk’s rough, groaning vocals over a fusillade of guitars and fuzz, singing songs about sex, heartbreak and menstruation (not to mention, they point out, Canadian cigarettes). Monks says of lead track “Desire’: “It’s about a huge sexual release, but it’s also about fantasies, youth and purity. ‘Sore’ is an album about rebirth … hence its disgusting guitar tones and constant moaning.” The album was produced by Josh Korody (Fucked Up, Greys) and Leon Taheny (Owen Pallett, Austra, Dusted), and the foursome’s recent live show at CMJ won plaudits for its pugnacity. “Sore” — with all its blow-your-hair-back catharsis — is another signpost on the long road that has brought us back to ’90s viscera, and not a moment too soon.

||| Stream: “Desire” and “Purple Rage”