Album Review :: Dirty Dishes - Guilty

Dirty Dishes

Guilty

January 27 2015 (Exploding In Sound Records)

7.5/10

Words: Alison Mack

The noise duo of Jenny Tuite and Alex Molini combine as Dirty Dishes on their debut album 'Guilty' to blend a sound range they includes elements of danceable noise pop, shoegaze, and grunge through swathes of synths and guitars to produce, as a whole, something that is as punctuated with sweet soundscapes as it is with aggressive feedback.

Kicking off how it means to go on, opener 'Thank You Come Again' is as loud and acidic ad you could wish, and like the unwieldy fire-powered 'Red Roulette', fuel the record's engines on uncompromising feedback from the grunge abyss. Although we are treated to the band's hard-hitting feedback onslaught in the first half of the record, this is not, however, the sum of their parts. Further on, slow, chilled out sound grooves come into their own, such as on 'One More Time', with Tuite's grazed vocals and inflected syllables working in partnership with ariose bells and lo-fi string instruments.

With six of 'Guilty's nine tracks extending over four minutes, this is no wham-bam-and-thank-you work of slap in the face abrasive shots; riffs, rhythms and guitar resonance are all carefully worked through without  to the fore, without forsaking the central Dirty Dishes’ psych sound. This is evident on the title track which is expansive than the aforementioned 'Red', with bass and guitar sections sublimely underlining its prickly chorus lyric. Art pop at its most sonically lush.