Dressed Like Boys

JelleDenturckis thesingerandfrontmanofDIRK.,apopular Belgian indie band that – inhisownwords – ‘hasbeenmaking afair amount of noise these past few years’. But in fact he thinks he’sa real softie, with a record collection full of melancholic indie pop and rock music: Bowie,Beatles, Lou Reed, Elton John, Nina Simone, Anohni & The Johnsons, Sufjan Stevens, PerfumeGenius, Wilco, Tobias Tesso Jr. ... clearly there’s a side to Denturck that doesn’t easily revealitself in DIRK.’s music.It's about time, Denturck feels. As Dressed Like Boys he wanted to write songs and make arecord all of his own. Not to turn it into an ego trip, but by way of self-examination. Denturcksings about the search for personal freedom, about his dearest friends, his homosexuality andrelationship, but doesn’t shy away from uncomfortable topics like gay bashing either. It doesn’tget more personal and fragile than this.Musically the influence of Denturck’s record collection is inevitable, and Dressed Like Boys’sound mainly echoes that of the 70s. Denturck takes it into the 21st century with tape recorders,(real!) strings, Wurlitzers, Rhodes, biscuit tin like drum sounds and a wonderful reunion with the(grand) piano, the first ever instrument he learned to play as a child.For all the noise Denturck likes to make with DIRK., Dressed Like Boys allows him to turn thevolume down a bit for an intimate look into his soul

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