Dum Dum Girls w/ Ex Cops at Fine Line, Minneapolis (22 Oct 2014)

Dum Dum GIrls Setlist Too True Set Cult of Love Evil Blooms Rimbaud Eyes Are You Okay? Too True to Be Good In the Wake of You Lost Boys & Girls Club Little Minx Under These Hands Trouble Is My Name Girls Intuition Classics Set Trees and Flowers (Strawberry Switchblade cover) Wrong Feels Right Lord Knows Rest of Our Lives It Only Takes One Night I Got Nothing Bedroom Eyes Coming Down Ex Cops Setlist Black Soap Burnt out Love White Noise Tragically Alright Separator Rooms Read More Dum Dum Girls Dum Dum Girls - too cute and popular for this earth ... and CMJ (yet they played some shows). .… … Ex Cops Listed as opener is Ex Cops, who may be playing some tracks from their debut album and their forthcoming sophomore album Daggers (available November 11th on Downtown Records). …

Los Angeles' Dum Dum Girls are back in Minneapolis as part of their "Cult of Love" tour, in support of their third studio album Too True (Sub Pop). The main difference on this latest tour is that Dum Dum Girls are playing the entire Too True, from start to finish... but we'll get to that in a minute.

Ex Cops

Opener Ex Cops started the early show, playing a brief 35-minute set. When they first came on the stage, I turned to a friend of mine at the show and said, singer Amalie Bruun looks more like an "ex-model than an ex-cop"... and apparently I was right: the Danish singer previously worked as an actress and model for Chanel.

Ex Cops

All the songs on their set were previews from their forthcoming album Daggers (Downtown Records), with the only exception of "Separator" from their 2012 album True Hallucinations.

Things got off to a rock start on their first song, "Black Soap", as a sound feedback was introduced in the middle of the song. The rest of the set was smooth sailing. Highlight of their set was "Tragically Alright", a song that they co-wrote with Ariel Pink.

Setlist

When the Dum Dum Girls were in Minneapolis at the Triple Rock Social Club earlier this year on April 1st, they only did about half of Too True. Since it's only been six months, they decided to play the entire album live.... plus throwing in a b-side "Girls Intuition" (which incidentally appeared on the Japanese release).

With the entire album live and with new visuals via a movie projection with a custom 'DUM' film, the show felt more like an exclusive listening party. If you liked what you heard, then you can re-live that experience with their Sub Pop album.

The whole Too True set was only about 40 minutes, so there was a very brief intermission, as they geared up for the second half of their show - playing some classic songs, plus a cover of Strawberry Switchblade's "Trees and Flowers." The cover was so soothing and gentle that singer Dee Dee Penny had to comment that the audience was "hopefully not asleep."

Too True is out now, check out this album listening live show this tour:

Oct 23 - High Noon Saloon - Madison, WI *
Oct 24 - Metro - Chicago, IL *
Oct 25 - Magic Stick - Detroit, MI *
Oct 26 - The Opera House - Toronto, ON *
Oct 28 - The Sinclair - Cambridge, MA *
Oct 30 - Brooklyn Bowl - Brooklyn, NY *
Nov 01 - Black Cat - Washington, DC *
Nov 02 - The Southern - Charlottesville, VA *
Nov 03 - Kings - Raleigh, NC *
Nov 05 - The Earl - Atlanta, GA *
Nov 07 - Club Dada - Dallas, TX *
Nov 09 - Red 7 - Austin, TX *
Nov 11 - Sister - Albuquerque, NM *
Nov 12 - Club Congress - Tucson, AZ *
Nov 13 - Crescent Ballroom - Phoenix, AZ *
Nov 15 - Pappy and Harriets' - Pioneertown, CA *

* with Ex Cops

Dum Dum Girls at Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis (22 Oct 2014)

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