Live Review: WATCH: Dum Dum Girls 'Coming Down'

Dum Dum Girls are an all-girl band who know how to play. They’re doing us ladies a favour if you ask me. Because they play well and they’re letting the world know that lo-fi chillwave isn’t only for the boys.

Their new clip, ‘Coming Down’ from last year’s album, Only in Dreams plays homage to feminist performance artist, musician and wife to John Lennon, Yoko Ono. Lead singer Dee Dee has her clothes hacked away by strangers with scissors. This mirrors Ono’s performance from 1964, entitled ‘Cut Piece’- by the end of which, Ono was completely naked. We’ll leave the feminist connotations from the piece and of this music video unsaid. We love a good cultural reference as much as the next guy, and it’s the symbolism that makes this music video gripping, something more than a “Look at our cool clip!” music video. It’s black and white, simple and quite moving.

Musically the the track is more like Mazzy Star than what we would expect after their 2010 album, I Will Be.  Yes, it’s brooding and has an emotional depth, marking a new stage in Dum Dum Girls’ musical careers- a bit garage, a bit melancholic. I could feel myself drowning (in an oddly good way?) in the rich sound. But what really carries the song is Dee Dee’s soaring vocals.

Watch it- it pretty much counts as Art History homework.

Words by Hannah Story.

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