More proof, as if we really needed it that all the musicians involved in Dee Dee Penny’s Dum Dum Girls project are all imbued with a talent bigger than your average NGC 6872. SISU is the musical project of Dum Dum Girl Sandra Vu which sees her step out from behind the drum kit to take lead vocals, guitar, and occasional flute duties in a collective that also features Dum Dum Girl guitarist Jules Medeiros.
SISU is a rather different musical beast from Dum Dum Girls’ wonderful epic garage infused pop and has a more shoegazy synth-centric feel. It sounds vaguely reminiscent of 4AD bands of the late 80’s /90’s with a modern twist and conjures up Vashti Bunyan fronting Pale Saints. This track ‘Light Eyes’ is simply gorgeous, a glistening aural synthesis of other worldly vocals, chiming guitars, diving beats and atmospheric synths. They’e just finished touring with Cat Power and will have a new EP out soon
OOoh this is cool , does Jules play guitar on this
I’m not sure to be honest. I could say I’ll ask her when they come to the UK, but last time I had the chance I got rather flustered and tongue tied and ran off. #tragic
Did you ever listen to Midnight Movies? Sandy and Ryan were in that band before, and started Sisu not long after that, I think. Jules started playing live keyboard sometime last year so I’m pretty sure she hasn’t been on any recordings yet.
I kind of knew about them but didn’t really get round to listening alas. I really should correct that soon! Thanks for the info
I always said that if they ever discovered the Higgs Boson it would be wearing a little T-shirt that said Jules is Cool.
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