Dirty on Purpose
Rock & Roll Hotel, Thursday, October 11
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The plucky, dreamy selections on the Sleep Late For a Better Tomorrow EP are driven by summery hooks and earthy sentimentalism, but live shows belie Dirty on Purpose’s meek on-record sound. Onstage, the band launches into long, distortion-heavy sets full of grinding chords and fuzzy electronic touches, as if to remind the audience that it’s the quiet ones you’ve got to keep an eye on. [ Time Out New York ]

The band is worthy of the hype... What I love about [Hallelujah Sirens] -- it could have gone a couple of ways. The co-ed vocals, gauzy guitars, the way those creeping subterranean basslines work their way through the songs, puts me in mind of those British shoegazer bands of the early 90s. the big washes of guitar sound, beautiful atmospheric melodies tucked inside these big cavernous guitarscapes... But there’s a flipside to this band. They could just do that beautiful humungous ballad thing for an entire album and probably do retty well at it. But they also got these grooves going — the bass/drums thing — that sort of hurdling momentum of these songs is what really put me over the top about this record. I think about listening to this record as if i was hearing a great song rushing past me from a subway train. Like you just hear it, and it’s passed you before you know it. [ Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune ]

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