Blog: Stereogum

We like just about everything Gang Gang Dance has done, though before this year, 2005's God's Money made us rave the most. The EP teasers that came in its wake were exciting, but they did ultimately feel like teasers, and not a jump to something else equally transcendent. Enter their excellent new album Saint Dymphna . It's not as sprawling as some of GGD's earlier work (which often reminded of some giant rhythmic centipede or a kind of real-time collage), Lizzi Bougatsos's vocal parts are often more obviously catchy or contained and less free-range, and there's more [...]