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mp3: Wired Up

hhbtm discography:
hhbtm087 "Wired EP" CDEP [2007]

With a penchant for melodies syrupy sweet backed by buzzing bubbly beats, the Lolligags have burst onto the electropop scene with a fondness for fun and a swift kick in the crotch of mediocrity. The duo is comprised of Dallion Lollihag who sings and RG Lollifag who handles music and noises, and the two have known each other since they were teenagers – after fifteen years they have finally found the music they were meant to make together. ‘She and I have always made up our own songs and worked with others musically,’ proclaims RG, ‘but all the things we have done in the past have prepared us for this time and these songs.’

Dallion is a natural performer in her own wildly original way. ‘I’ve always loved entertaining people,’ she confesses. ‘I had that desire at five years old, and as I grew up I still had those desires. They never went away.’ RG is comfortable letting her girlish yet acrobatic voice take the spotlight. The songs begin with a creative spark from Dallion. ‘Shit just comes to me,’ she explains. ‘I go into the bathtub, I sing whatever comes out. It seems right to me.’ RG says, ‘she has this knack for coming up with the most delightful melodic gems on the spot without much effort, as if she is picking the juciest apple from a tree.’ He continues, ‘I take her bits of song and try to see the big picture, what the finished piece will sound like.’ Dallion adds ‘I automatically have an interesting way of thinking about things and saying things, so when I go and get them out it’s this rush of crazy words. And RG is really good at interpreting those things.’

Dallion Lollihag and RG Lollifag bounce their ideas back and forth to each other in a relatively primitive way – over the telephone. ‘Dallion lives in Athens, GA, and I live in Nashville, TN,’ explains RG. Won’t that make live performances impossible? ‘We haven’t figured that out yet. It will happen, but we go about things in our own way. There’s so much I hate about playing in public: I hate smoky clubs, I hate shows that start late, I hate encores. So when we play live, we hope to do it in a non-traditional way. There’s nothing very traditional about the Lolligags.’

The Lolligags debut release is an EP entitled Wired which features four songs both psychologically complex and musically captivating. The first song, ‘Wired Up,’ was meant to be a one-off for the two, an experiment to see if it would work. The results electrified them. Full of swirling synths and danceable drums courtesy of studio savant Jason Nesmith, ‘Wired Up erupts into an ode to troubled sleep and identity instability. Dallion explains, ‘It deals with someone wanting to be somebody else so they can put that person through the same hell and mental anguish they’ve been through.’

In an effort to expose human sexuality as an animalistic desire, ‘Kitten, Come Over,’ is a girl’s desperate plea for a boy to ‘cop a feel’ while she’s in her ‘lavender dress,’ ‘She’s inviting a cute boy, a kitten, to pay her a visit,’ says RG. ‘Yeah, this girl wants to fuck,’ says Dallion, ‘she wants the attention She’s saying – let’s not talk. Come over. Fuck me. Here I am. Fuck me.’

‘Creepy Things’ finds the singer condemning a boy for stalking girls he fancies, but she only knows of his vice because she is in fact stalking him. ‘Everywhere he goes, she’s right there,’ says RG, ‘on the train, waiting for the bus, on the elevator – watching the creepy things he does. But in doing so, she’s even creepier.’ ‘Yes,’ agrees Dallion, ‘two wrongs don’t make a right, you know?’

The final song, ‘Staircase Mystery’ presents a grim fairy tale of children left to fend for themselves in a large house without their parents. ‘It’s Hansel and Gretel if they were rich and lived in a mansion,’ says RG. ‘Or the Sound of Music gone horribly wrong – what would the Von Trapp children do if Maria and their father were dead, and they were being terrorized by a madman?’ ‘It also makes reference to my obsession with dolls – Blythe, Kokeshi, and so on,’ adds Dallion.

‘Many of the songs have this children-at-play innocence to them,’ claims RG. ‘Yes,’ agrees Dallion, ‘they are fun and dancy, but they can be sickly sweet. We’re fascinated by the fairy tale in them, but in the same way they can be fucking creepy. The songs seem to say, ‘come to my beautiful gingerbread house. Eat all you want. But I am going to kill you.’’

Clearly the Lolligags make classy and clever new wave electronic pop in their own dazzling way. Don’t dilly dally – come along with the Lolligags!