DOLLY MIXTURE - "REMEMBER THIS: SINGLES COLLECTION" LP

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Rumour has it that when DOLLY MIXTURE first began in 1978, they barely knew how to play an instrument. Lucky, then, that they totally encapsulate the UK-DIY sound with their chop-em-up and spit-em-out pop tunes. There’s always been a dark underbelly to pop music, one that has showed itself in different ways over many a time and place. Just because it sounds nice or quaint, doesn’t mean it can’t have a mean spirit innit? Running in the same circles as The Damned, DOLLY MIXTURE certainly had a twinge of punk to their sound – not unlike The Ramones at their most doo-wop or the waves of power pop that washes over the UK’s shores through the late 70’s into the 80’s. Sometimes ambitious, sometimes down the line razor sharp, and sometimes as blunt and sloppy as a well worn boot – the band has a triumphant DIY spirit written all over it and a million melodies to mull with your cheap wine. Another gem given new shine by the fantastic Sealed Records.

SEALED RECORDS: 15 track album that compiles all of Dolly Mixture's 7" and 12" released between 1980 and 1984 on Chrysalis, Respond Records, Dead Good Dolly Platters and Cordelia Records. If you bought all five original singles - you'd have no change from 200 pounds. Dolly Mixture sit somewhere between the Shangri-La's and the Go-Go's which appeals to Indie kids, Punks and 60's girl group fans. Dolly Mixture toured with the Undertones, played John Peel's 40th birthday party, recorded a wealth of true pop classics, gave U2 a support-act leg-up, wrote songs for Lena Zavaroni and influenced the whole riot grrrl movement, but floored by on-the-road illness, decooled by Captain Sensible and dismissed as 'the Slits meet the Nolans' by a UK music industry too hung up on black leather hipness.