STILL SINGLE

A space for thoughts on music and culture, as written by Doug Mosurock and a select handful of individuals. This is intended as a supplement to our regular feature Still Single, published on Dusted Magazine. Updates will run here more frequently, and may feature writing on music not covered in the column. Compact discs are still not accepted for review -- we have more than enough vinyl and the occasional cassette to worry about. Our Twitter feed keeps you apprised of reviews as they're published. It's kept locked and private, because with a name like @stillsingle, everyone thinks it's a dating site. Approvals happen whenever they happen.

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July 13, 2012

King Dude – Dungeon Doo-Wop 7” (Dais)

Maybe these tracks need a full album next to them to shine – certainly the more questionable moments of the past two King Dude LPs benefitted from the workspace of ideas good and bad around them – but I’m having a hard time finding a way into this single, a teaser for TJ Cowgill’s forthcoming Dais album Burning Daylight. Here is an artist who’s done all he could to inject the blackened, sketchy background of neo-folk by foregrounding pop balladry and traditional romantic gestures, and it’s worked before (and most likely will again) but I’m having a hard time with the choice of slow, sappy “You Can Break My Heart” in the traditional notion of a single. “Devil’s Tail” sounds like a subdued take on the “other” category of King Dude songs, the ones that focus on some sort of spiritual endpoint for meaning/scares. This’ll be gone before you know it, though, so no worries. Catch him when he drops the album. 300 numbered copies. (http://www.daisrecords.com)
(Doug Mosurock)

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