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Indie anthem for the Weekend: Deap Vally
Indie | Friday 5th October 2012 | David
Daisy Dukes and dirty rock blues, the true meaning of bad-girls just found its way back into music, only this time they’re packing crochet.
Here it is, the long awaited Indie anthem for the weekend. As popularity soars for this article I find myself inundated with bebo requests and msn messages. I’ve even taken to wearing disguises due to a mob of unruly hipsters armed with camo print and studded up to the nines ready to attack, all after the inside scoop.
This weekend’s anthem is brought to you by the bad ass ladies of Deap Valley. I’ll be honest with you, on first finding these rock queens I was worried I was about to embark on music filled with too much eyeliner and daddy issues, the cries of a fifteen year old girl after one too many Lambrini’s. It would be all too easy to place these ladies as wannabe punk princesses with their daisy dukes and bed hair but a true talent shines through their music. Described by The Guardian as, "Robert Plant with all the testosterone sucked out, wailing over beats that make Meg White's dragging approach to time-keeping seem positively machine-like and metronomic".This dishevelled duo are a mix of the White Stripes, Led Zepplin and the give a damn attitude of Patti Smith, all tied up in a dirty sexy bow.
The ladies met in a less than conventional manner. Deap Vally drummer Julie Edwards recalls, "I was teaching a crochet class and Lindsay kind of wandered into it. She gave me her EP of solo stuff also, she learned to crochet really quickly so I thought, 'Oh, there's some potential here. She has co-ordination - that eye, hand, brain, body thing."Both Troy and Edwards were working on their own music beforehand with Troy even having produced her own EP Bruises, a far more sensitive style compared to heavy rhythmic sound they now create together.
It’s a shock to hear how much noise these two ladies can make between them; they are impossible to ignore. Edwards comments, "People say we sound loud and it’s so much sound for two people but I think there's a dynamic. There's sparseness and openness and then there's fullness and loudness."
This rock and roll duo are the role models young girls should be looking up too rather than plastic pop princesses, and the ladies agree. They say they are happy to be held up as feminist role models for young women, in and out of the music industry. Deap Valley won’t sing about their baby-boy buying them beautiful things or their boo, rather Gonna make my own money. It’s as if Destiny’s Childs Bills just got a backcomb and some incredible bangs.
Their latest video for the song End of the World has just been released, however for this weekend’s anthem I think we need some dirty girl power. Move out of the way Spice Girls, as Deap Valley are packing a punch, combining Troy’s guitar shredding and piercing vocals with Edwards rocking the f**k out of the drums, here is one hell of a weekend anthem.
By Becky Tanner-Rolf @BeckyTannerRolf
