If you have ever been fortunate to be at a venue that really isn't one but it home to all the creative misfits in town in the middle of nowhere, usually in a cold cinderblock building or an after hours bike shop in Silverlake (or wherever) and there are some cool bands that exist well beneath the so called underground bands in town and there is a palpable buzz in the air in this sweaty stuffed place, you will remember it. I have and will remember those bands in the back of my mind sometimes faintly like blurring dreams and sometimes in a crystal clear way. Listening to "No Advice" by Denver, Colorado's Kissing Party reminds me of those times.
"No Advice" has a beautifully dense sound that might give you throwback feelings to artists from other times. Like an Interpol or Joy Division 45 played on 78 but less brooding, the percolating guitars and runaway drumming have a vast desperate sense as if you could run so fast as to not have time catch up and thus be young forever. I am really liking the lo-fi vocal sound against the not so lo-fi musical bed.
From LINER notes:
Self-proclaimed "slop pop" act Kissing Party announced their new album "Graceless", out November 17 via the band’s own record label, BBYV Records. A dirty and dreamy masterpiece, the project features ten sleazy pop gems that peek into the band's life from the past three years, with themes of escape, loss, longing, heartache, heartbreak, and occasionally…happiness.
Kissing Party is the quintessence of the DIY culture and their effortless aesthetic reflects this. Every aspect of the Kissing Party world – from the music to the artwork, to the videos and t-shirts – is created by the band's main visionary and founder, Gregg Dolan.
I look forward to dipping into the new album "Graceless", out November 17 via the band’s own record label, BBYV Records.
I look forward to dipping into the new album "Graceless", out November 17 via the band’s own record label, BBYV Records.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://open.spotify.com/artist/01aT5KBkwchuBXg4cPJnqC
https://www.instagram.com/kissing_party/
https://twitter.com/kissingparty
This is Slop Pop. Meet Kissing Party, your new favorite band whether you like it or not. Every city has those hidden gems that only locals know about, be it a restaurant or bar or a band. In Denver, that band is Kissing Party…for the moment.
Kissing Party is the quintessence of the DIY culture and their effortless aesthetic reflects this. Every aspect of the Kissing Party world – from the music to the artwork, to the videos and t-shirts – is created by the band's main visionary and founder, Gregg Dolan.
Transplants of NY, PA, and OH, Kissing Party makes music like their lives depend on it. Considering the term ‘indie’ to be a useless descriptive term in the 21st century, the pop princess trash artists have dubbed themselves as Slop Pop instead, (a perfectly blended chaos of dream pop, shoegaze & beach goth).
After receiving national attention with critically acclaimed album Mom & Dad (2019), Kissing Party re-released a deluxe edition of their culture classic The Hate Album (2020) and a slew of singles including “Fuck the Future” (2020), “Pig City” (2021), and “Boy with Pipe,” (2022) which garnered airplay from ‘The Mayor of Sunset Strip’ Rodney Bingenheimer’s Sirius XM Underground Garage Show. The band is finally ready to unleash their dirty and dreamy masterpiece Graceless into the wild this fall.
Graceless consists of 10 sleazy pop gems the band describes as “upbeat melancholy.” The songs are instant, intense, & dramatic without a sense of irony but somehow retain a sense of humor that makes you want to drink then dance then drink some more.
Graceless will be released November 17 via the band’s own record label (BbyV Records) which was founded with the help of a fan funded Kickstarter campaign.
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