Dirt Dress - "Perdido en la Suciedad 2"

As a band, Dirt Dress exhibit some seriously bizarre behavior. First, they give you the option of downloading their EPs for free, or paying $5 for a cassette tape. (???) I suppose this is some sort of retro-purist marketing move--and to an extent, I can see the hiss of tape and the squelch of rewind lending itself well to what this band sounds like--but how can a band hoping to be taken seriously operate under such antiquated self-promotion? Maybe they don't want to be taken seriously. Maybe they're just targeting an ultra-niche audience of people who live in dark living rooms and actually own cassette players.

Second, Dirt Dress doesn't really seem to be interested in playing songs as much as they are interested in scrapping blues and indie rock genres from the bathroom floors of bars and combining them with snippets of scattered radio frequencies and other non-music sounds. Somehow, this combination results in extremely catchy "tunes." I don't know if the short stature of EP release is some sort of strange and unorthodox journey to a much larger masterwork (apparently, there's a third Perdido en la Suciedad EP coming out yet this year, so we're getting more of this) or if Dirt Dress are simply setting their goals extremely low (and blowing my mind while doing it). These are the two things that intrigue me most about Dirt Dress. But mostly the thing about the cassettes and the tape deck dwellers.