Moody Australian rockers
Died Pretty's 2000 album
Everydaydream is very much in the band's classic tradition of dark, somber post-punk tunes leavened by a sly sense of humor and guitarist Brett Myers' neo-psychedelic sense of songcraft, but the album also finds
Died Pretty continuing with heavier use of electronics, a direction begun with their previous outing, 1998's
Using My Gills as a Roadmap. The group, led by co-writer and lead singer Ronald S. Peno, seems to have been listening to
Portishead and
Massive Attack albums, as these songs are among the darkest and prettiest the band has yet attempted.
Died Pretty's reliance on electronics alongside Myers' hazy sheets-of-sound guitar makes the whole album sound like some sort of mixture of
the Church,
My Bloody Valentine, and any number of 4AD artists, with the expansive, falsetto-spiked "Misunderstood" a particular highlight. ~ Stewart Mason