Dilly Dally Alley
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Front & Center - Local MN Artist Showcase, 1308 SE 4th St, Minneapolis
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“No, this is pop at its best, though not the sort of pop you would find anywhere near the charts or mainstream radio; more’s the pity. No, this is pop made from the best bits of a hundred years of musical refinement and evolution. It is a sound percolated through early jazz dance bands and post-war soul divas, political funk outfits and purveyors of conscious soul, acid-jazz revivals, and post-modern jukeboxes. And the result is both revelatory and authentic, familiar yet wonderfully fresh and forward-thinking.” - Dave Franklin
"Hearts Like Caves" is the shimmering, water-soaked synth-pop single from Dilly's upcoming second album, Monster (out this summer). Written by bandleader Sophia Spiegel during her brief move from Minnesota to the East Read more
"Hearts Like Caves" is the shimmering, water-soaked synth-pop single from Dilly's upcoming second album, Monster (out this summer). Written by bandleader Sophia Spiegel during her brief move from Minnesota to the East Coast, the song captures the feeling of being cast adrift—of losing an identity before it could take new shape in new roots. It brims with love for her Minnesota communities, the ache of unfinished relationships cut short by timing, and the joy of being untethered to explore new identities. With its colorful sentimentality and Dilly's signature jazz-pop touch, this track offers the perfect soundtrack for easing into your own transitions..
"That Secret Thing" is a sapphic daydream—a fleeting kiss on the neck from a friend, a shimmer in a lover's gaze, a hand grazing a coworker’s knee. It lives in the tension of what could be, in the intimacy of relationships that never quite happen. The desire lingers not in possession, but in possibility—and that’s what makes it so electric.
Find out is about the silly, clumsy moments in a relationship that end up be the very reasons why you fall in love. it's a song about running into your crush too drunk at a bar, or at the grocery store without your makeup Read more
Find out is about the silly, clumsy moments in a relationship that end up be the very reasons why you fall in love. it's a song about running into your crush too drunk at a bar, or at the grocery store without your makeup on, or completely tongue tied trying to ask them out. it's about the love that never-the-less persists between two people because it's meant to work out. those little mistakes end up being critical to making it a real relationship. this tune is to dance to - maybe a bit clumsily - so long as you're doing it with someone you're crushing on.
Same Damn Door is about how foolish it is to pursue success with too much ambition. It was written by founder and lead singer of Dilly, Sophia Spiegel, after her engineer and coproducer, Adam Tucker, told her to write a Read more
Same Damn Door is about how foolish it is to pursue success with too much ambition. It was written by founder and lead singer of Dilly, Sophia Spiegel, after her engineer and coproducer, Adam Tucker, told her to write a short, silly song without thinking too hard about it. They were having a conversation about the political landscape of the music industry, how serious everything felt at the time, and how odd it is that people worked so hard to perform and release to just be in meaningful, playful spaces with other people.
It opens with a high BPM groove laid down by Dilly drummer Ben Ehrlich. Slowly, other voices trickle in to accompany Sophia’s angry diatribe. Maxwell Voda creeps in with a soon-to-be roaring bass groove, doubled by a thrumming synth that gets equally as deafening. Levi Schwartzberg joins in with his sultry Rhodes chords, and so does Sophia with her melodious guitar. Mitch Van Laar and Denny Carlson enter the stream of crescendoing noises with snaking, chromatic horn lines, until the whole band drops out for Sophia’s jaded conclusion to her angry rant: “Is a door that leads to heaven just the same damn door that leads to hell?” Thus commences a song that, within the span of just 3 minutes, will make banging your fists, stomping your feet, and maybe even quitting your job all too irresistible.
It opens with a high BPM groove laid down by Dilly drummer Ben Ehrlich. Slowly, other voices trickle in to accompany Sophia’s angry diatribe. Maxwell Voda creeps in with a soon-to-be roaring bass groove, doubled by a thrumming synth that gets equally as deafening. Levi Schwartzberg joins in with his sultry Rhodes chords, and so does Sophia with her melodious guitar. Mitch Van Laar and Denny Carlson enter the stream of crescendoing noises with snaking, chromatic horn lines, until the whole band drops out for Sophia’s jaded conclusion to her angry rant: “Is a door that leads to heaven just the same damn door that leads to hell?” Thus commences a song that, within the span of just 3 minutes, will make banging your fists, stomping your feet, and maybe even quitting your job all too irresistible.