Lo-Fi Fuzzy Punk Band Dolores Haze Echo The Sentiment Of The #MeToo Movement

Gwen Stefani-ish vocalist Groovy Nickz can’t get anymore sassier on her band Dolores Haze’s new single “Banana,” and ROUGH ONLINE is very happy to hear that the Lo-Fi, Punk influenced act will be releasing their debut album through Warner Music later this year. Inspired by Tarana Burke’s “MeToo” phrase which became a known movement, further to the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations, “Banana” delivers a less serious vibe in comparison to its’ subject matter, by the use of disses aimed at the Sexual Predator, such as “you’re a no-grow, you’ve got nothing to show bro, I think you should go home, don’t forget your dildo,” which quite frankly makes you lol so hard you sometimes forget about its’ angst-ridden undertone. You could easily think of “Banana” as an up-to-date version of Gillette’s 1994 American Dance hit “Short Dick Man.”

We haven’t heard a catchy “whistling” melody like the one heard in the Intro of “Banana” since last year’s Allie X single “Paper Love.” That, along with the Intro’s choir voices, similar to the famous string arrangement of Moby’s “Porcelain” forming the bass line under a keyboard melody like the sound we meditated to on the middle 8 section of “Candy Perfume Girl,” the 1998 Madonna and William Orbit collaboration from the Ray Of Light album are the production methods used to provide a dreamy Pop vibe. However, the head-banging beat, reminiscent of the drum kit used in Armand Van Helden’s 2000 B-Side track “Phreenik,” the Reggae-esque percussive rhythm sample dropped in at the end of each 4th bar, surreal early-Prodigy synths performed in the last chorus that throw us back to the 1992 underground banger “Out Of Space,” and distorted one-off strums on the electric, all together form a masterfully, edgy music production, worth repeating again and again.

Its’ Nickz’s voice that completes the full picture, with her fuck-off Rock attitude, and vocals that form more of a chatty, rapping style, effected with some distortion and delay, because there is no other vocalist out there like her right now with such a distinctive style that stands out from the rest of the singers in the charts. “I don’t wanna see your banana,” will be sure to stay in your mind’s eye for quite some time after the first listen. In one short sentence, Dolores Haze’s “Banana,” is quite simply a flipping tune.