Monday, May 12, 2008
Dash and Will
Dash and WIll - ‘Pick You Up’
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When I got into the car to drive to work I had Tegan and Sara’s The Con in my head so I fired up the iPod, put that song on loud, and then put on a few more pop gems from the twin sisters before arrived at the office. As soon as sat down I opened up an email encouraging me to download Dash and Will’s new free track called ‘Pick You Up’.
The email unfortunately described Dash and Will as Australia’s answer to Tegan and Sara, which forced me to compare the two acts and since T&S is still fresh in my head from this morning’s drive, D&W’s offering seemed underdeveloped and repetitive. This is an unfair comparison of course seeing that T&S has so much more life and songwriting experience than D&W, but I’m guessing that’s how most listeners would feel too. Nevertheless I’m also sure that like me most people can also see that D&W is bubblling with promising talent and that this choice of single is not indicative of their carreer path. You can hear the obvious distinction in their voices, as opposed to T&Ss hard-to-tell-apart similarity, is going to be a strong point in their songcrafting endeavours.
If you venture to their MySpace there’s a couple more tunes ready for listen and can stand their own ground even in the shadow of a certain popular songwriting sister duo. Looking forward to hearing more.
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dash and will are amazing! fantastic songwriters, definitely one to watch in the future, i wouldn’t be surprised if they knock the veronicas off their perch with a much more credible indie sound! i love them! x
I think they will just be a craze.
Amazing? Fantastic songwriters?? INDIE!?!?!
You’ve got you be kidding me? They are the Veronicas, just with a different name…
Yeah, don’t quite get the T&S likeness (just listened to The Con as well). Catchy though.
BTW, just came across this blog, great idea guys!
dash and will write their own shit. that’s more than the veronica’s can say . . .
Nowhere near as witty, clever and melodic as Tegan and Sara - there is no comparison!!! Their music is more like the contrived pop musings of the Veronicas than anything else. Indie? Please.
I recently saw these girls play in Melbourne, and they were great! If you actually went and saw them live you would know that they are nothing like the Veronica’s. They write their own music and play their instruments too. People should go and see them before they decide they are just a craze. good luck to ‘em!
Why is it always that tall poppy syndrome in Australia.
These girls write their own shit, play their own instruments and unlike the veronicas are fresh with natural talent and natural good looks, unlike the aforementioned who parade around LA looking like cardboard emo cut outs.
the T&S ref is basically I think just so people know what sort of genre they should expect to hear
Aint it funny that when the Galvatrons came out we had everyone on the “Australia music scene” giving them shit about van halen rip offs and that they were never gunna make it and now they are touring overseas.
Perhaps if we just statrted supporting Australian’s talent instead of continually cutting them down we may see more and more talent emerge from the unlikeliest of places.
These girls are super cute, talented and I believe we will see great things from them. Especially given that they are so young Im interested to see their song writing and the like mature and change as they grow up, if its anything to go by with their current stuff it should be very promising!!!!