Dasher - We Know So (Reviewed By Jamie Bey)

Another Friday guest review for you, doing the honours this week is Jamie Bey. Jamie's one of the hosts of Not The Punk Rock Show. This is what he had to say about his show....

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Over to Jamie for the review....

Dasher – We Know So (from the L.P. Sodium)

Dasher and this LP are one of our “finds” of 2017. A three piece named after a blade from a food blender, originally starting in Atlanta, before relocating to Bloomington Indiana. The band have a certain amount of history which is covered in the notes to the album on the bands bandcamp page, so I'm not going to repeat all that here.

We Know So is the opening track of the L.P. and sets the tone of the whole album; feed back into hammering primal drum beats, driven by fuzzy throbbing bass-lines, overlayed with soaring psychedelic noise guitar, and raging delay drenched vocals, with a catchy but simple chorus. It was this song alone that set me off down the M62 to a record store in Leeds to buy the L.P. A risky thing to do sometimes but in this case I had a feeling I was onto a goodie and I wasn't wrong.

The engine that drives Dasher is drummer/vocalist/song writer Kylee Kimbrough and one of the joys of the punk scene for me has always been writing to bands I like, the marvels of the interwebs means communication is a lot easier nowadays (and doesn't involve tatty recycled envelopes and soaped stamps.) Which has meant that I've been able to ask her a few questions about the song and the Dasher sound in general. At this point I need to add that Kylee received an adult ASD (autism spectrum disorder) diagnosis post recording the song and this puts a different perspective on the lyrical content of it (and others such as Go Rambo and Sodium) and the overall sound. When asked about her influences she mentioned early UK post punk, Crass and Crisis also got a mention, tho she mostly listens to soul music at home, and joked the sound was Aspie soul music, lyrically the song can be seen as non ASD people asking someone with ASD why do you not know this ? Kylee told me a tale of being lost in New York with her tour manager, who had a bit of an accident in their pants, her mind asking should I follow suit in sympathy, something “we know so's” know not to do. (she didn't follow suit).

Dasher toured the UK in early 2017 and I'm really hoping they come back, the album has been one of our favourite releases of 2017 and we really think you should check them and their post punk psychedelic noise rock out.

https://dasher.bandcamp.com/album/sodium

https://www.facebook.com/dasheratl/
  This is We Know So....