Minneapolis Indie Pop Archives

Spotlight Feature: Embrace the Chaos with the Visceral Visualisation of Emotional Discord in Dilly Dally Alley’s Electro Jazz Pop Attack, This Just In

Posted on 23 August 2024

Fresh off the heels of their last single, Find Out, Minneapolis Indie-Pop jazz-adjacent collective, Dilly Dally Alley, led by the magnetic emissary of soul Sophia Spiegel, has unleashed their second single of the summer, This Just In.

Feeling deeply can often feel like a curse, yet, a proclivity towards heightened emotion only serves to sweeten the resonance in this incitement of an indie art pop riot, which feeds an abrasive electro pulse through John Carpenter-reminiscent synths, deliciously delirious reverb and distorted jazz-punk sax riffs capable of driving you to the brink of euphoria and beyond to experience a cathartic release from emotional turmoil.

The opening lyrics – “there was a sharpness in the land, sharpness in the beat, sharpness in your eyes, made me feel complete” – reflect the conflation of emotions and conflicts, perfectly matched by the avant-garde instrumentals that create a vivid, visceral, whirlwind of an experience which transcends sound.

You couldn’t ask for a more accurate mirror of the mental discordance that accompanies emotional dichotomies or for more blissful salvation from them.

This Just In will be available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify, from August 23^rd, ahead of Dilly Dally Alley’s sophomore LP, which will permeate the airwaves in January 2025.

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Review by Amelia Vandergast

Spotlight Feature: ‘Find Out’ and Fall in Love with Dilly Dally Alley’s Indietronic Jazz Infused Earworm

Posted on 19 July 2024

As lightness meets lyrical depth, Dilly Dally Alley’s latest feel-good earworm, Find Out, opens a doorway to rhapsodic bliss with a juxtaposing key of edgy off-beat style and an all-consuming sense of jazz-collective-next-door soul.

Straight out of Minneapolis, the ensemble, led by Sophia Spiegel, spun every-day awkward moments into sonic sugar for the soul; the single pulsates at the crossroads of indie-pop and jazz-inflected alchemy and unravels as the ultimate affirmation that you’ll always be free to shed your inhibitions and embrace your idiosyncrasies in front of the people who matter.

If there was any definitive formula for indietronica pop perfection, Dilly Dally Alley found it with Find Out; the kinetically weightless rhythms pull together to form a dance-worthy anthem that is equally as liberating for the mind and soul.

With Find Out, Dilly Dally Alley doesn’t just step into the limelight—they grab it, twist it, and weave it into a tapestry of infectious grooves and raw, emotive energy. The track is a testament to their journey from late-night jam sessions to becoming the heartbeat of Minneapolis’ vibrant music scene.

Dilly Dally Alley Said:

“Find Out is about the silly, clumsy moments in a relationship that grow to be the very reasons why you fall in love. It’s a song about running into your crush when you’re too drunk at a bar, or the grocery store without your makeup on or being completely tongue-tied trying to ask them out.

It’s about the love that nevertheless persists between two people because it’s meant to work out. This tune is to dance to – maybe a bit clumsily – so long as you’re doing it with someone you’re crushing on.”

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Find Out will be available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify, from July 19; shortly followed by the next single in Dilly Dally Alley’s line of sonic succession, This Just In, on August 23.

Review by Amelia Vandergast