Desoto
2005
Give Me All Your Money
About This Album
Quite possibly the first rock band outside of the ska or Blood, Sweat & Tears-style "horn rock" subgenres to incorporate a trombonist as a key full-time member, Lawrence, KS, quintet Doris Henson are in all other ways a fairly standard indie rock band with no particular stylistic allegiances. Singer/songwriter Matt Dunehoo favors the same sort of wholesale plunder of the '60s and '70s arena rock canon as Bob Pollard, but he's an inconsistent songwriter. The driving "Let You Down" has a great fuzz guitar riff, a terrific chorus, and a galloping rhythm section that powers the whole thing along, and the hazy jangle of "Big Future" recalls an entire generation of guitar pop bands that sprouted up in the wake of R.E.M. and the Smiths, but too many of the other songs mask their lack of memorable melodies with over-busy arrangements ("Joybirds" is a particular offender in this regard) or simply sit there, inert. The best parts of Give Me All Your Money suggest that Doris Henson have a genuinely great indie pop album in them, something in the tradition of such great Lawrence bands of the past as the Embarrassment, but they're not quite there yet. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
Track List (try tracks 2,3,4 and 9)

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