Los Angeles by way of Boston duo Dirty Dishes are getting ready to release their long awaited full length debut Guilty on January 27th via Exploding In Sound Records. This week Stereogum premiered the band’s new single “Red Roulette,” saying “Dirty Dishes takes that [90’s] stereotype and runs it through layers of distortion, forced into the background by Alex Molini’s unflinching synth lines and rendering any creeping desire to describe the band’s sound as “sludgy” or “fuzzed-out” null and void” before concluding with a definitive “comparison would be a disservice”.
There’s a great deal of sonic wonderment unfolding on Dirty Dishes new album, from blistering shoegaze to eerie slowcore, the band use their full length to stretch out ideas and moods. After two extremely well received EPs, the once Boston quartet uprooted to Los Angeles, and began life as a duo with their current line-up of Jenny Tuite (guitar/vocals) and Alex Molini (bass/synth). Though they may have moved coasts and minimized band members, Dirty Dishes’ music continues to grow bigger and exceedingly layered. The band have created a massive and soaring indie rock album combining the Dishes’ most serene and chaotic moments, offering a blissful wall of sound that crawls forward as often as it explodes. Doom and gloom unfolds side by side with shimmering bursts of catchy noise pop.