DIED PRETTY - Doughboy Hollow LP book It’s not a new thing

It’s not a new thing to holler “one two f*ck you” over a peppy drum-machine beat and monotonous synths

and programming to cocoon their bereft vessel

30 You Are A Knob

The recording and the performance are so good the band released the recording on cassette on Emmett Kelley’s Ha Ha label

The work has more in common with a fever or a fitful wraith than a simple record

DIED PRETTY - Doughboy Hollow LP book It’s not a new thingHighly recommended. Died Pretty's run of greatness possibly reached its peak with 1991's Doughboy Hollow. It was an album which finally and belatedly really saw the band rise above the musical underground and gain a wider audience. Spearheaded by incredible singles such as "D. C.", "Godbless" and "Sweetheart", Ron Peno, Brett Myers, Chris Walsh and co. were accompanied by the likes of cellist Sarah Peet and The Go Betweens' Amanda Brown on violin to