Henry's Dress were that rare band for us - a group that we discovered through a demo tape, and then only through the Linton's heroic perseverance in getting a very busy Papa Slumber to listen. Boy, are we glad we finally listened! This EP documents the band's middle period, branching out from their initial interests in Loop-meets-MBV pop heaviness into the more mod/punk sounds that would fuel their later efforts. It's a superb, varied record well worthy of your further investigation.

Anyway you slice it, this record is a smash. Hard-hitting tracks like "Radio One" and "Feathers" are the Dress at their punkiest best. Linton's "A Is For Cribbage" is the Dress at their most mod, coming on like an early Who on a handful of purple hearts - it's possibly our favorite Dress tune! And then of course there's "Sally Wants" and "Three" - a couple of blissed-out fuzzed-out downtempo tracks that beat the space-rockers to the punch by a few solid years.

The band would go even further down the mod/punk route with their subsequent album "Bust 'em Green," but this EP represents a raw, immediate document of a band finding their footing and their own unique sound. And best of all - it still sounds freaking great.


Henry's Dress - Definitely Nothing

See that hottie drive by riding her Ducati
Would have been my ex wife if we talked tonight 
I know I’m not married but dam girl I want to be 

She’s a hottie with a Ducati
She’s a hottie with a Ducati

Riding with you just with two wheels
In the safety of your hands
Sexy Motorcycles

She had on her leather 
Could have been the mother of my children 

Sexy Motorcycles starting up your engine  
engine engine engine engine 

Riding with you 
Just with two wheels
in the safety of your hands

She’s a hottie with a Ducati
She’s a hottie with a Ducati
See that hottie drive by riding her Ducati

Hottie With A Ducati

Idialedyournumber - Hourglass - 04 Interlude (I Grow Awake)

american food

Trying Not to Have a Thought

Shameless Faces (even the guy who made the thing was a piece of shit)

What's Mine

Here it Comes, There it Goes - 2005

hiding

Solar Man

ee[Ramadan] - 02.Asian Gangsta Kidz.ogg

i’ll count to heaven in years without seasons

lilies

What's Mine

Algernon Cadwallader