Dilly Dally follow up their recent single Candy Mountain with Green, from an upcoming 7″ on Buzz Records/Fat Possum out October 14, 2014. Take a listen to the Green via Soundcloud below + the track is available for purchase now @ Bandcamp.
“Katie Monks sings the way drunk people do at weddings – loudly, messily, and with absolute conviction. You can make out about five words total on ‘Next Gold,’ the first track from Dilly Dally’s forthcoming debut, but the Toronto four-piece’s Pixies-style grunge pop is no less riveting for being incomprehensible.” – Pitchfork, May 2014
“The first thing you’ll notice about Dilly Dally is Katie Monk’s voice. Every word, every guttural moan is a battle to escape. Singing sounds excruciating, like her lungs have filled with smoke and she’s forcing all of the air out of her body in a violent trial by fire.” -Stereogum September 2014
Track listing:
Side A – Candy Mountain
Side B – Green
The band is set to play CMJ this year alongside acts Potty Mouth, Beverley and Sam Roberts. Below is a list of live dates.
Upcoming shows:
10/17 Toronto, ON @ S.H.I.B.G.B.S w/ Army Girls, Wish
10/24 New York, NY @ Radio Bushwick (CMJ) w/ Potty Mouth, Beverley
10/25 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom (CMJ) w/ Sam Roberts
11/12 Hamilton, ON @ The Casbah
12/06 Toronto, ON @ The Garrison w/ Greys, Odonis
More about Dilly Dally? Dilly Dally began as a teenage dream shared by Katie Monks and Liz Ball. Obsessed with slurred poetry, epic ballads, and grungy guitars, they’ve been writing music together since 2009. The band itself, however, has taken much longer to become what it is today.
Members have came and went, but just recently the two best friends welcomed new drummer, Benjamin Reinhartz (Beliefs), and bassist, Jimmy Billy Rowlinson (Mexican Slang), into the project. This new found collaborative energy has ignited their live show, drawing attention from Toronto’s renowned noise/punk scene. Pretty weird considering Monks’ fierce loyalty to a classic pop song structure.
Last spring, Dilly Dally self-released their first single, entitled Next Gold. The song has since received praise from Pitchfork, NME, and Brooklyn Vegan. It came from a collection of material the band recorded with producers Leon Taheny (Owen Pallett, Austra, Dusted) and Josh Korody (Fucked Up, Beliefs, Greys) at Candle Studios in 2013. Dilly Dally plans on releasing much of this in the near future.
The band is now deep into creating their first full length. The teenage dream has never died, though it has grown heavier, louder…and seems as though its screeching to escape into the real world. In four words: Dilly Dally is pumped.
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