Dimples – “Heaven Blotted Regions” b/w “I Can Feel You Out There” 7” (Mexican Summer)
Earlier this year I received a package that contained Dimples’ debut LP, Council Bluffs, along with the Silkworm-ish soul-tug Devices + Emblems LP by the fantastic Tre Orsi. The latter knocked me sideways for weeks, thus overshadowing Council Bluffs, a record that has been awarded exactly two full listens. There’s no denying I was hearing something of possible interest, but that didn’t keep it from falling through the cracks. This 7” will. The closing statement on Dimples’ Mexican Summer page is “Two goddamned great songs” and I am concurring as hard as I possibly can. I am also digging out Council Bluffs immediately after I figure out how to articulate this record’s impact on my ears. The two tracks couldn’t be more different on paper or via the basic approach to writing, but both hemorrhage personality and stick-to-the-rest-of-my-days infectiousness. Permanently fastened to my noggin is Side A’s frantically-fucked ballad, perhaps a nod to the accidental greatness of the best outsider, private-press, post-punk urban psychedelic lounge-rock littering the second half of the ‘70s. That song’s a lifer. Side B rides on a real metal riff and equally authentic hook, proving these smiling freaks to be capable of, and driven to, make high-quality rock. I’m elated at the existence of this band. 500 hand-numbered copies. (http://www.mexicansummer.com)
(Andrew Earles)
