Tammy invited several of McCaughey’s friends and band mates to make guest appearances on the track, including Kurt Bloch (Young Fresh Fellows, Fastbacks), Ken Stringfellow (Posies), Corin Tucker (Sleater Kinney), Andy Shernoff (Dictators), Keith Streng (Fleshtones), and Michael Giblin and Josh Kantor (Split Squad). John Hill, in his alternate role as a freelance tour coordinator, was actually in San Francisco with McCaughey when he suffered the stroke, and a distressed Tammy Ealom wrote the song while following the details back home. “Tiny Lil’ Robots” and “Sweet Medicine,” meanwhile, were inspired by Tammy’s relationship with her daughter, while “Mon Cheri” was sparked by the emotions that accompanied the sudden death of Dressy Bessy’s original bass player Rob Greene in January 2018.Įlsewhere on the new collection, the bittersweet “The Real McCoy” pays heartfelt tribute to longtime friend and label mate (Minus Five/Young Fresh Fellows leader) Scott McCaughey, who had suffered a stroke at the time the song was written. Throughout Fast Faster Disaster, such engaging new tunes as “It’s Not That Hard,” “Fearless,” “Cheerup Teardrop” and “Stay True” reflect on universal emotional foibles with the same pointed insight that Ealom has brought to her lyrics since the band’s early days as iconoclastic indie pop darlings. The Denver combo’s second Yep Roc release, and their second since the seven-year recording hiatus that preceded 2016’s KINGSIZED, Fast Faster Disaster ‘s new songs affirm Tammy Ealom’s career-long commitment to barbed lyrical insight and effortlessly catchy melodies. beginnings, Tammy Ealom’s distinctive songcraft remains as sharp as ever. With this album, most songs were written for someone or inspired by something I love.”įast Faster Disaster makes it clear that, two decades from the band’s seminal D.I.Y. Writing a song about it made me feel like I was getting the last word, case closed in my mind.

“In the past, the bulk of my songwriting was inspired by something or someone who’d pissed me off. “This is the most selfless record I’ve ever written,” asserts frontwoman Tammy Ealom. She’s the genuine article and one of the strongest, most talented women I know.” Tammy’s songwriting and performance are as vital as ever. “This album comes out 20 years after our first one,” guitarist John Hill says of Dressy Bessy’s second Yep Roc Records release, Fast Faster Disaster.

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