SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: HUSH – FOR DOLLY

HUSH
FOR DOLLY
SIMONE RECORDS

How do you craft a debut album to make exactly the right impact? Do you rush into it while the inspiration is red-hot, or do you take it slow to make sure everything sounds exactly as you envisioned?

For Montreal trio Hush, it makes no difference whether they took one or the other (or something in between), as their debut For Dolly seems to be exactly what their original line of thinking told them – walk that thin line between psych rock, dream pop and revived trip-hop, often in a single song like on “Bliss Just Missed” or on their designated single “Funhouse.”

It seems that vocalist Paige Barlow and multi-instrumentalists Miles Dupire-Gagnon and Gabriel Lambert had quite an effective meeting of minds here, because that line between different musical styles can be quite thin, and you can make a misstep easily and at any point, but Hush, luckily, escapes any of those and comes up with quite a promising debut album.

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