New Dirty Dollhouse Album

I got to spend the weekend playing and recording with Dirty Dollhouse, a band I’ve been in for about 5 years now. On Friday we did a sold out show at the Newtown Book & Record Exchange, which is owned by Chelsea Mitchell, the singer and songwriter of the band, where we debuted a bunch of the songs off the new album. Then we recorded at a studio in Bucks County on Sunday and Monday (I performed Standup at Helium on Sunday night, so it was a long, but rewarding week), and knocked out 9 songs. The songs are brilliant and the album sounds amazing. I’m guessing it will be released sometime in the fall, so definitely keep an eye out for it. In the meantime, check out all of the older Dirty Dollhouse recordings wherever music is found, but I prefer Bandcamp, because they take by far the smallest cut from sales. Chelsea is a true genius and has one of the most incredible voices on the planet. The band also includes Eric Lawry on drums of Kalob Griffin Band & Hurricane Hoss fame and August Lutz of Levee Drivers fame. We’ve all played together for a long time in various projects so this band really has a sound that’s been cultivated for about a decade even though this specific lineup has only been together for 5 years.

It was my first time recording with my brand new electric bass, the Fender Ultra Jazz Bass V. It sounds ridiculously good and is currently the fanciest thing I own. I wasn’t really in the market for a new main bass when I was shopping (I still love my old Peavy Cirrus, which I’ve had for about 20 years), but this thing just checked so many boxes. I’ve had a 5 string with active pickups since the beginning of college and was looking for something with passive, but this Fender has a switch that can toggle between the 2 settings. I didn’t expect to prefer the passive sound, but Fender really perfected that classic Fender Jazz Bass sound for the 5 string and I find my self using that setting more often than the more modern active sound. I also played some upright on the album, but that bass is old news. Around 70 years old really.