Toronto’s Dilly Dally put out a fantastic LP with Sore, featuring incomparable vocals by the dusty voiced Katie Monks, who shreds tracks apart by use of her voice and blaring guitar. This is evident on songs like “The Touch,” where driving drums pummel over echoing guitar fuzz, and Katie rasps over the song’s ending with multiple “oh whoa whoa oh”s that seem too natural for someone who sounds like they’re ripping their voice apart. “Witch Man” has Monks singing interesting melodics and breaking into a haunting howl that works all too well. This entire album is meticulously planned out and tastefully composed, loud and thunderous.
