Dresden Dolls
Yes, Virginia...
Release Date: Apr 18, 2006
Genre(s): Indie, Rock
Record label: Roadrunner
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Album Review: Yes, Virginia... by Dresden Dolls
Very Good, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 8/10
The Dresden Dolls could never be accused of being shy and retiring, but on their second full-length, Yes, Virginia. . .
Based on rating 3/5
Arch provocateurs the Dresden Dolls are back, their dark cabaret as theatrical as ever, their second album a poison-pen letter seething with sex, politics and isolation. Singer and pianist Amanda Palmer still plays a goth Sally Bowles - her voice bold and brittle, her words unsentimental - but, together with drummer Brian Viglione, she has moved away from the Weimar Republic feel of the duo's 2004 debut and embraced pop. The catchy attack of Backstabber culminates in wicked laughter, and the speeding piano and snapping drums of Necessary Evil play on the band's punk and new wave tendencies.